Word: hobo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...juggling act with four themes in the air at all times: 1) an epic of the soil, 2) a love story, 3) a study of an ex-G.I. reorienting himself to peacetime life, and 4) a rough-and-tumble western. Taking the empty-boxcar and hobo-jungle route, Cam Johnson, the novel's hero, beats his way back to the wheat-belt town of his childhood. Buffalo Coulee is Our Town on Central Standard Time, "a rundown county seat started by French voyageurs, half-breeds and Sioux . . . cut up into prairie lots by the boomers of kiting towns...
...memory of a previous affair, Cam by the bitter knowledge that he sits too far down the farmer's table to reach for Millie's hand. Their romance is not so much star-crossed as double-crossed, and Cam has to call on both his hobo and Pacific jungle lore to win an eye-gouging barroom brawl with his chief rival. Cam's and Millie's dilemmas are overwritten and underfelt. But in Minnesota-born Author Cahill's book, old nature, and not young love, is topic A, and for his evocations of a wheat...
Despite these reservations, Ma Pomme would be good fun at any time of the year, and Chevalier's many fans will probably find it wholly delightful. Nicknamed "Ma Pomme," the Master is living as a happy, street-singing hobo when the inevitable pirate treasure turns up and the inevitable attorney traces him down as chief heir. Ma Pomme naturally decides to refuse the 600 million pounds in favor of a beggar's freedom, but he goes first to meet the new-found relatives who would benefit by his acceptance. These include a pasty-faced entrepreneur, a roly-poly lady...
...naturalistic actor of narrow but deep-cutting talents. He played what he is, The Kid from Hoboken, but he played him with rage and tenderness and grace, and he glinted in the barrel of human trash as poetically as an empty tin can in the light of a hobo's match...
Married. Emmett Kelly, 56, famed hobo clown of the Ringling Brothers circus and Hollywood (The Greatest Show on Earth) and Elveria Gebhardt, 22, circus acrobat; he for the third time, she for the first; in Edgewater...