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...John Lustgarten of Grays East, who finished a close second behind Kayali, said "The number of competitors reflects the apathy which pervades the freshman intramural program this year...
...settles on his recollections of an old acquaintance, Hymen Lustgarten, a former Marxist from New Jersey who has passed through all the radical ideological incarnations of the '30s. Lustgarten loses at everything, including the postwar European black market and the Laundromat business in Algeria. But as Bellow reveals in a balance of satire and compassion, Lustgarten's failures brim with life juices while Mosby's successes are empty and dry. "Having disposed of all things human," Bellow concludes, "he should have encountered God . . . But having so disposed, what God was there to encounter...
...WOMAN IN THE CASE, by Edgar Lustgarten (218 pp.; Scribner; $3), is a retelling-and also a brilliant explanation -of four famed British murder trials in which women figured prominently. A well-written account of a true crime has twice the chilling impact of fiction. Author Lustgarten, equipped with a sharp, legally trained mind and a novelist's eye and heart, is probably just the man to succeed William Roughhead and Edmund Pearson as top writer in the true-crime field...
...Storm Troopers. By Whitsunday eve, Berlin looked tense. Armored cars, troops and police patrolled the border between the Eastern and Western sectors. On the big day, the Communist youngsters were awakened by buglers before dawn. By 7 they had begun to march down Unter den Linden toward the Lustgarten. The route of march was plastered with flags and big propaganda posters, depicting the standard Russian heroes (Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung) and evil-looking "dollar imperialists." One poster showed a trio of capitalist exploiters in Edwardian garb, complete with grey toppers. With the kids marched 10,000 grim-faced "Special...
...Berlin, 150,000 leftists, wearing red armbands and red carnations, trudged down Unter den Linden to the Lustgarten. Spark and spontaneity were lacking. "Mensch!" exclaimed a German who remembered May Day parades under Goebbels and Ley. "There is no spirit here-it's a funeral procession...