Word: leas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...WONDERFUL COUNTRY (387 pp.]-Tom Lea-Little, Brown...
...Lea is fast nosing out Zane Grey as king of the Cowboys. This latest mesquite and tumbleweed opus offers little to be criticized--maybe because it offers little, period...
...nicest thing about "The Wonderful Country," besides Lea's own illustrations, is that it's all plot and takes around four hours to read. If you can judge westerns by the usual criteria of literary excellence, then the book's worst flaw is that the reader frequently doesn't know who is killing whom, when, where, and why. Of course this might make little difference to the affilcionado, but I'm one and I like to know what is going...
...incisive glimpses into the character of his characters, Mr. Lea just doesn't give us any. They're good when Martin's on their side, and bad when he's not. The author uses an old, but still good, Don Passes trick when in traducing his main figures. He pleasantly deserthes four unrelated groups of people and then weaves them together Los them runs out of tricks. As an afterthought (of any is warranted), the author evidently doesn't believe in transitions between scenes...
Riposte. In Cleveland, Landlady Lea Paul complained that after she asked two female tenants to move, they: 1) packed glue into a lamp socket, 2) rubbed cold cream into the sofa cushions, 3) smeared textile bleach on the sofa, 4) glued an oriental throw rug onto the carpet, 5) poured a mixture of syrup, salt, coffee and sugar over the living room...