Word: jessup
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CINCINNATI KID by Richard Jessup. 154 pages. Little, Brown...
Author Richard Jessup, a former merchant seaman from Savannah who once worked as a dealer in a gambling joint in Harlem, tells a cool, good story. His language is as spare as the language of the men he is writing about, but his work has the topography a novel needs...
...Saturday, February 15 DO YOU KNOW? (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). The study of archaeology, based on two books by Ronald Jessup and Dorothy and Joseph Samachson. CHALLENGE GOLF (ABC, 2:30-3:30 p.m.). Arnold Palmer and Gary Player challenge Tony Lema and Phil Rogers at the Desert Inn Country Club in Las Vegas. Color. THE BING CROSBY SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). For his second special this season, Bing has recruited Wife Kathryn, Singers Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Rosemary Clooney, and Comedian Bob Hope...
...Jessup's book is short, but all his characters seem clearly drawn. Or, more accurately, we know them all--probably because they all appeared in The Gunfight at Dry Gulch on the late show the other night. Lancey is The Fastest Gun in the West. The knot of poker dilettantes who watch The Game are the drunks who scamper out the door of the Golden Horseshoe Saloon before the showdown gunfight...
...Jessup's writing is so hypnotic that one can easily overlook the time-worn plot...