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...RUSSELL HOBAN 211 pages. Random House...
Crackling Intelligence. This is the risk that most sentimental entertainment runs: touching the heart while by passing the mind. Author Russell Hoban, 50, does not take that shortcut...
...this point, Hoban wisely refrains from offering a madcap chase sequence replete with careening police cars and lovably inept thieves. The escapade is indeed comic, but only in the ease with which it is pulled off. The turtle keeper does not simply agree to look the other way while his charges are stolen; he packs them into traveling crates himself. Their mission routinely accomplished, William and Neaera find that no one has noticed...
Mashek found that Ford "met with an imposing variety of people," in an "air of humming activity." Hersey, who couldn't keep his eyes off the "twinkling Adam chandeliers," the "proud Hoban columns like marble guardsmen," and the violins of the U.S. Marine Band, was similarly impressed. A lot happens during his week. Federal Reserve Board Chairman Burns explains the economy to the president, bringing with him "several charts; on some of them upwardness is visible." At a cabinet meeting the president asks Earl Butz. "Are the farmers happy. Earl?" Earl replies evenly. "No sir, they aren...
Glamour Issues. Sauvé worked with the Chicago brokerage house of McMahon and Hoban in setting up and operating the fund. But just what the St. Joseph Trust invested in remains a secret, though one story indicates a heavy purchase of glamour electronics issues. The Securities and Exchange Commission reportedly found illegalities in some of the investment activities, but no evidence of fraudulent intent...