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Through the years, Ase sows his fields with wheat and reaps stones in his bread. His mother goes completely mad. His two best friends, a pixy of an Irishman and an ugh-ly Indian, die while helping him. His eldest son butters political palms for crooked contracts, and his youngest is killed at Chateau-Thierry. Even the crops fail, and he has to peddle firewood from door to door. One last chord of longing keeps Ase playing at life: he wants to see his brother Ben before he dies. At the age of 80, he does. He finds...
...Thomas Fairchild but trailing both Ike and Governor Walter Kohler Jr.). In Minnesota, Ike was 5,600 votes ahead in St. Paul, which gave Tru man a majority of 40,000 in 1948. Even Adlai Stevenson's Illinois had fallen. Ike jumped into a narrow lead, cutting sharp ly into Stevenson's expected majority in Chicago and rolling up so decisive a ma jority downstate that Democratic Boss Jake Arvey conceded before midnight...
...when Davie starts raving about the roadside diner he can buy for $300, and spouting the combination and cash contents of the rickety old safe, Pa Eder-ly's eyes blink without tears. Pretending a fear of robbers, Pa and the family stoke the safe with $300. "Given money, wheedled money, is always back to wheedle again," Pa muses. "With taken money it's a different story; it goes and stays." That night, as the rest huddle sadly near an upstairs window, Davie skedaddles with the loot, goes "to make his million, down the black road...
West, an 18-year-old son of a paper-plant foreman, who quit Georgia Tech because he found nothing but "hard, cold facts of engineering," looked like a church -ly Frank Sinatra, in his Paisley bow tie and purple jacket, his big ears enlarged in shadows on the blackboard behind him. He read his long text (Luke 9: 20-27: ". . . And be rejected of the elders . . ."), and in a businesslike manner proceeded to expound it-the job of youth today. "Unless we, the young people of today, go to work, we're going to lose in the end. This...
...Glamour." A modest, monastical-ly-minded bachelor who disdains money and "glamour," takes St. Francis of Assisi for his model, Mitropoulos once surprised Minneapolis society by living in a cubicle in a University of Minnesota dormitory; he donated much of his $25,000 salary to needy composers. He has not changed his ways in Manhattan. Last month, when he took the Philharmonic into Manhattan's Roxy Theater as the stage attraction (partly to reach new audiences), he turned half of his own $5,000-a-week salary over to the orchestra's pension fund. He lives alone...