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Yale's poor showing surprised a good many of the 200 onlookers. Everett Hedden, Jeff Loucks and Bob Schaller were way back somewhere in the middle of the pack--and these men were Yale's most highly rated runners...
...were a few U.S. novelists in the middle ranks who gave promise of reaching the top some day. From the South came two novels shucked clean of old magnolia and Faulkneresque gothic: Thomas Hal Phillips' neatly written, believable son & father story, Search for a Hero; and Worth Tuttle Hedden's Love Is a Wound, a thoroughly honest and quietly dramatic tale of slavish and unrequited love in North Carolina. By & large, U.S. writers seemed to serve up fewer wormwood cocktails, fewer canapes of neurosis and despair, than in previous years. A selfconsciously written, cliché-laden, but interesting...
LOVE IS A WOUND (467 pp.)-Worth Tuttle Hedden-Crown...
...much of the talk is real and lilts with soft Southern music. If it had been trimmed and tightened it would have been a very fine novel indeed. But even as it is, the book is an honest and sometimes dramatic picture of love turning in upon itself. Novelist Hedden, herself a Southerner, writes with authority of the post-Reconstruction South. More important, she writes with authority of Ora, David and Ellen, demonstrating through their troubles that the tyranny of the weak can be as oppressive as that of the strong...
...just ten minutes behind schedule, Captain Hedden reported in to the tower at Oakland Airport, and began a standard instrument letdown through the overcast...