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Bill Gray, Harvard center, beanpole idol of the gallery, is counted on to run up a large tally against the small and traditionally inferior Tech aggregation, which has been further handicapped this year by the failure of their captain-elect to return to school...
...climax the dog-store owner has been put on the spot by Raft who, in a fit of remorse, goes through a hail of police bullets to save his rival's life and die in a moire silk dressing gown at the foot of a joss-house idol...
...specialized in love-making while he was successively a baker's assistant, a trapeze artist, a model for Auguste Rodin ("Eternal Springtime"), how he first arrived in the U. S. as Sarah Bernhardt's leading man. The final Hollywood picture was of a broken, hollow-eyed matinee idol who kept having his face lifted...
...first, best-known novel, Futility, was a take-off (some phrased it: a comic appreciation) of his idol, Anton Chekhov. Resurrection pays its suspiciously grave respects to another of his heroes, Marcel Proust. Unwary readers might well be taken in by Author Gerhardi's occasionally indubitable solemnity, might almost believe that the psychic experience he writes of is meant to be taken at its face value...
TAMES G. ELAINE-David Saville Muzzey-Dodd, Mead ($4). Authoritative life of a onetime political idol, by one of the better-known U. S. historians...