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...French society would be the hero. He might be compared with the builder of a city who lays out his streets in advance, builds one house beside the other methodically, pausing from time to time to call attention to the increase in population. But in building his city of Jefferson, Miss, in six novels and three books of short stories, William Faulkner has followed a far more devious path. In effect, he has put down one street and then built houses miles away from it. As the same characters (or their sons and grandsons) turned up in volume after volume...
...characters in Faulkner's other novels. Because the stories are told by Bayard Sartoris, they close one of the gaps in the chronicle of Sartoris' family who, along with the Compsons, the Sutpens, the Coldfields, and their slaves, overseers and illegitimate children, make up much of Jefferson's past and present population. The stories are full of action and there are few of the involved Proustian passages that made Absalom, Absalom! almost unreadable. Instead, its outdoor scenes of fights with Yankees and highwaymen, its pictures of the transformation of well-bred Southern boys to horse thieves...
...name as well as fact by succeeding President Francis R. Hart who died last month. Purely on a business basis, President Zemurray is supposed to have backed a couple of Central American revolutions. Elected last week to the new post of board chairman for United was camera-shy Thomas Jefferson Coolidge, onetime (1934-36) Undersecretary of the Treasury, a great-great-great-grandson of another colorful revolutionary, Thomas Jefferson...
...composed of Director of the Mint Nellie Tayloe Ross and three sculptors-Sidney Waugh, Albert Stewart and Heinz Warneke-will pick a new design from those submitted by artists. But the New Deal has already picked the subject of the winning design. It must bear a portrait of Thomas Jefferson on the obverse, of his home. Monticello, on the reverse. Struck by the coincidence that Democrat Jefferson will be commemorated...
...grandeur he will have assumed 100 years hence. In Washington last week the President made good use of his opportunity. From a beginning devoted to a historical picture of the New Deal as the logical modern flowering of a tradition in government set by Andrew Jackson, Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln, Cleveland and Roosevelt I, the President adroitly proceeded to echo the remarks of his underlings on the subject of monopoly. Excerpts...