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...from her son's cruel lips), she shoots herself. Her monstrously affectionate children then suffer a monstrous expiation. Demented by remorse and ingrown desire, the son shoots himself in order to join mother. Daughter determines to "live alone with the dead, and keep their secrets, and let them hound me, until the curse is paid out and the last Mannon...
...Zaslavsky's scream against Lenin only brought Lenin's censors in greater, more ferocious force, to hound him from cellar to cellar. He changed the name of his newspaper from Den (Day) to Noch (Night) and then to Pol Noch (Half-night). But before long, darkness engulfed it altogether. Darkness also engulfed a number of his Jewish Bundist colleagues. It was then that Zaslavsky "reexamined his political beliefs" and threw himself on the mercy of his erstwhile enemies, the Bolsheviks. He became one of them, and has since been among their most zealous servitors...
...Invaders," by Peter Gray, is reminiscent of the lead story in the last issue. Both are tales of neurotic young men hounded by fear. While the first attempt was confused and shadowy, the new story, dealing with three murky characters who hound a Greenwich Village habitue back to his Albany home for a practical joke, has a basis in realistic motives and comprehensible feelings. The mounting tension is skilfully underwritten, and the success of the work is dependent on the right refusal of the author to employ any of the tricks of emotional writing...
...foundations of the present Greyhound Corporation. They kept on buying up other lines out of profits, kept their former owners to run them. When their cash dwindled, a Minneapolis banker, Glenn Wood Traer, joined forces with them. He persuaded railroads to hedge their own futures by investing in "the Hound...
...into Elephant. Though the Hound is already elephant-sized, President Orville Caesar, 54, plans to keep it right on growing. As Wickman is chairman of the board of directors, most of the Hound's care and feeding is up to Caesar. He now has in the works a $20 million project for new terminals, at New York, Chicago and San Francisco, along with garages, restaurants and comfort stations...