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...FEET TALL. An orphaned British lad (Fergus McClelland) wandering alone through Africa falls in with a grizzled old diamond poacher (Edward G. Robinson) in a crackling adventure story with the charm of Huck Finn and the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
...most part, signatures have little value by themselves. What collectors most want is a letter or other manuscript having a direct bearing on the individual's history-making specialty. Thus a Hemingway letter criticizing Faulkner-with the inclusion of a four-letter word-sold last year for $1,550. On the other hand, some communications from Astronaut John Glenn to a car dealer, which brought $425 in 1962, would have been a much better investment had they been concerned with outer space...
Said: "We had lots of servants in baggy silk trousers-one was an ex-eunuch." In the simple, gruffly tender relationship between the stray orphan and the fugitive bounder, Boy combines the charm of Huck Finn with the ruggedness of a Hemingway safari...
What ever became of Irwin Shaw? Anyone who read fiction 20 years ago knows why the question is important; during the '40s Shaw wrote a large body of short stories good enough to be mentioned with those of Fitzgerald and Hemingway. They were brief, stinging fragments, told in a voice wholly Shaw's own. They were not, most of them, about joy, but they seemed to have been written with joy; this was writing done wonderfully well for no more complicated reason than that the author took pleasure in doing...
...Have and Have Not" (1944) is less a movie adaptation of the Hemingway novel than a Western Hemisphere version of "Casablanca." Prevented by "diplomatic censorship" from sticking more closely to the book, producer-director Howard Hawkes evidently decided to capitalize on the tremendous popularity of the previous year's Academy Award Winner...