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Standing now at the top of his profession, in which, curiously enough, he holds no degree, William Francis Gibbs is a profound skeptic. Young Son Francis is an enthusiastic horseman, but Father Gibbs hates the sight of horseflesh. Said a member of his family: "He always suspects they're ready to bite him." In the same way he is leary of success. When a man begins to think of himself as successful, according to the Gibbsian philosophy, "he gets to thinking he is so goddam bright that it just paralyzes...
...OTHER HORSEMAN-Philip Wylie -Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The old story from which Philip Wylie gets his title is better than the story he tells. The old story: There was a fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse, who galloped ahead of the others to warn people that they were coming. Realizing as he returned through a devastated world that nobody had heeded his warning, he became so disgusted that he joined the other Four Horsemen in destroying what was left of human life. The Fifth Horseman's name: Reality...
...Pearl Harbor isolationists. Despite a great deal of angry talk, the young bomb enthusiast manufactures no bombs, burns up nothing except his boss and the daughter of the chairwoman of the local America Forever Committee. His name is not Reality but Jimmie Bailey, and, unlike the Fifth Horseman, he never enlists with the other four...
Dashing Lieut. General Jonathan Mayhew ("Skinny") Wainwright, fighting scion of an illustrious military family, horseman, balladeer, fighter-to-the-end, was finally forced to the greatest tragedy in a soldier's life. He surrendered, and walked off through the dead and dying to discuss with fat, able General Yamashita the terms of his capitulation...
...Hill Awards to the men who have made the most progress in equitation, in the first two classes will be given to Herbert C. McArthur '45 and Paul B. Akin '44, and the Robert H. Hallowell awards to the Junior who has shown the greatest improvement and the best horseman in the Senior class have been won by John M. Field '43 and Malcolm P. McNair...