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...church and believe in God?" he guessed desperately. "Live by the golden rule and keep goin'," prompted Edwards firmly. "Keep goin'," repeated Dempsey. He kept goin'. Only once, with obvious inadvertence, did he throw a verbal counterpunch. "Now they say you were a hobo," droned Edwards, "but you were never really a hobo, were you?" Dempsey groped, then murmured gently: "I think I was a hobo." The audience howled, and Edwards grinned through clenched teeth...
...piece, the introduction provided by Ruth Nanda Anshen is a mighty blast, especially for such a small trumpet. In her forward to the series, (Miss or Mrs.?) Anshen manages to embrace the Declaration of Independence, the rights of man, the United Nations' charter, Ruth Benedict, Buddha, and the hobo party platform in a prospectus with little perspective...
...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...