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...former military police officer returned from Korea, would like to voice a loud "hurrah," not only for Major Thomas James, but for your tactful story on a Korean "Slicky Boy" [March 10]. If anything, your article understated the plague which confronts our armed forces in Korea and the almost complete lack of anything but token cooperation from Korean civil and military authorities...
Mumbo, Jumbo & Bumbo. Other local poets-Lawrence Ferlinghetti (Junk Man's Obligate) and Kenneth Patchen (Hurrah for Anything), et al.-have moved into the jazz clubs. "All these Kenneths," comments Kenneth Rexroth, "sound a little like Mumbo, Jumbo and Bumbo, each the biggest elephant in the world...
...title page warns that Edwin O'Connor-author of The Last Hurrah, that uproarious and thinly disguised novel about Boston's raffish former Mayor Curley-intends Benjy as a "ferocious fairy tale." But readers can settle back unappre-hensively and enjoy this blithe-spirited, Thurberesque fable of a little boy who is too good for his own good. Along the way, longtime Bachelor O'Connor, 39, gets in some Wylie digs at Mummy. Though the fun sometimes wears thin, Benjy is a striking display of virtuosity, proving that its author can move with literary ease from Curley...
...mood for a last hurrah, Boston's former mayor and silver-voiced Prince of Blarney, James M. Curley, 82, was no sooner sworn in as a member of the Massachusetts Labor Relations Commission than he learned that his son George, 38, once Boston director of public celebrations, had surrendered to Morris County, N.J. police, charged with impairing the morals of two male minors...
...drink. The chief editorial writer of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer turned up on the Teamster payroll as Dave Beck's biographer. When Beck was named international president of the Teamsters, Seattle's most influential men gathered at a dinner to cheer him on with a stout hurrah. Some alumni may have winced inwardly when Beck was named president of the University of Washington board of regents-but they did precious little protesting. Beck could walk into the eminently respectable First National Bank and come out with a whopping big loan; after all, he had moved...