Word: humeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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THE UNDERGROUND CITY (755 pp.) -H. L. Humes -Random House ($4.95).
H. L. (for Harold Louis) Humes Jr., 32, a founder of the little magazine Paris Review, has written a huge (755 pages) book which is the most indefatigable first novel of the year. Humes writes in a documentary, now-it-can-be-told style of a man who believes that...
Hell's Pastures. His narrative is largely concerned with Major John Stone, an American who first came to Paris as holder of a scholarship in cello playing, played the organ briefly in a corrective school for girls, and, war being war, wound up an OSS operative in the French...
...like to be a Negro and actively fight segregation in the North? Hascal Othello Humes, 30, is an A.B. from Columbia University, a former infantry lieutenant who saw combat in Italy. With his wife, he lives in a white neighborhood in Seattle. When they first moved in, the Humeses got threatening letters and obscene telephone calls, but they stuck it out. Humes has three jobs: he is studying for an M.A. in psychology at the University of Washington, he is a city policeman in the afternoon, and at night he is a bouncer in a mixed nightclub. His police beat...
Humes's life illustrates the price the Northern Negro often pays for his state of semi-equality. As a citizen, the Negro in the North, by & large, enjoys full rights: everywhere except in the border states, he is equal in the schools and in most public services. His great fight...