Word: hotspurs
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...Hornblower and the Hotspur, Forester...
...Hornblower and the Hotspur, Forester...
FICTION 1. Ship of Fools, Porter (1, last week) 2. Youngblood Hawke, Wouk (2) 3. The Prize, Wallace (6) 4. Another Country, Baldwin (5) 5. Dearly Beloved, Lindbergh (3) 6. Uhuru, Ruark (7) 7. The Reivers, Faulkner (4) 8. Hornblower and the Hotspur, Forester 9. Franny and Zooey, Salinger 10. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone...
James Valentine brings a youthful earnestness to the part of Hotspur. Hugh Feagin's Aumerle and Sada Thompson's Duchess of York are helpful. Of the other players, some are adequate, and some so affront the English language as should be banned from any stage whatsoever...
...Boston last week, silver-haired, short-tempered Patrick Benedict McGinnis, 58, bowed out as head of a Class I U.S. railroad for the fourth time in ten years. But in surrendering his job as chief executive of the 127-year-old Boston & Maine, the hotspur of U.S. railroading at least set a refreshing precedent. On previous occasions-aboard the Norfolk Southern, the Central of Georgia and the New Haven-McGinnis was tossed out by angry stockholders. At the B. & M. he decided to move up to chairman on his own hook...