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With the cry of the bailiff one morning last week, the jampacked courtroom in Birmingham's Federal Building fell silent, stood as Judge H. Hobart Grooms, lanky veteran of more than a quarter century of practice as a Birmingham lawyer, took his place. Beyond the closed courtroom doors, in the corridor, latecomers waited patiently, hoping for a chance at seats...
...into the university after a long fight in court. Finally, Federal Judge Harlan Hobart Grooms issued an injunction ordering the university to admit her. Trailed by her guard, she reported to her first class, sat alone in the first row, tried hard not to notice the freshman who stomped out of the room muttering: "For two cents I'd give up the course...
...Enslaved. Author Hobart in her novel tells how two men slip ashore on the China coast to be guided by the anti-Communist underground into Shanghai. One is David Conway, Chinese-born U.S. businessman doggedly intent on rescuing a young American trapped by the Communists. The other is Mu San, whose father, a wealthy Hong Kong refugee, sent him to help Conway's desperate mission...
Venture into Darkness is a thriller of betrayal and escape that only such an old China hand as Alice Tisdale Hobart (Oil for the Lamps of China) could have fashioned. It is also a bold psychological study of an American obsessed with guilt over China's loss, and of a young Chinese who tears away from the world's most tenacious family ties to throw away his soul in the annihilating Communist State...
...trying to describe such secret agonies, Author Hobart may have attempted too much, but the hand that lit the memorable Lamps of China has not lost its skill. After journeying to Hong Kong last year, at 72, she has reached deep into the heart of the present darkness. Her novel evokes the "New China"-public confessions, students marching and singing. "Defeat the savage-hearted American wolf," brainwashed Mu San leading a party of schoolchildren to a beheading in order to harden Communist discipline. Venture into Darkness is a terrifying look at a tyranny trying to convert China into "600 million...