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...collection of character studies, "Gus the Great" is superb; as a continuous story, it falls somewhat short of the mark. Mr. Duncan throws out a wealth of threads during his novel and has difficulty weaving them into a satisfactory knot at the climax. Important characters clash in a weird and incongruous way. While others are forgotten entirely. But regardless of the flaws in its construction, "Gus the Great" is a monumental work, showing both penetrating insight and real sympathy for the circus...
...bodies aboard the U.S.S. Honda Knot would not be the first to arrive in the U.S. Early in the war, through an error, the bodies of two U.S. marines were returned to their kin in St. Louis (TIME, June...
...head-on crash, No. 4's steel held, but the special's wooden cars burst into a knot of wreckage. Shattered gas lights and exploding gas tanks beneath the ancient coaches spread fire the train's length, set two nearby grain elevators ablaze, leaped to an Imperial Oil Co. storage depot where 80 drums of oil took fire. Rescuers saved as many passengers as they could before the flames drove them away...
Carol of Rumania and his red-haired Madga Lupescu, who went through a provisional marriage ceremony last July when Magda appeared to be dying, decided to make it good & legal this week or maybe next. In Rio de Janeiro there would be a sort of Double Carrick B. knot: the first twist civil, the second Greek Orthodox...
After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...