Word: hellboxes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nevertheless, some editors still play the news in the way that (they were taught) will sell papers. They still give a quarter of their space to sports. If it means throwing U.N. into the hellbox, they find room for the day's crimes, knowing that the Sunday News of the World (circ. 7,500,000) was built on news of the half-world...
...HELLBOX (210 pp.)-John O'Hara- Random House...
...hellbox, as the publishers helpfully note on the jacket, is the place where printers throw broken type. These 26 stories by John O'Hara (an Old Newspaperman himself) have the neat and durable ring of O'Hara's best writing. They also have O'Hara's special effect of making the reader feel he has bitten something brassy. To O'Hara's hopeful admirers the stories may look like 26 more notes for the novel they think he ought to write-and, from that point of view, wasted sticks of type...
...book is a hellbox in a wider sense: about two-thirds of the stories record brief episodes of evil. O'Hara is an expert at ugly moments, probably the best expert in contemporary U.S. writing. Like many of his stones, these have such painful audibility that they make life itself seem an ugly moment unduly prolonged. The figures in his Inferno are mainly Broadway, Hollywood and resort people with a few professional criminals thrown...
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