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...SHIRALEE, by D'Arcy Niland (250 pp.; William Sloane; $3.50), takes its title from an old Australian word for the bundle of belongings swagmen carry as they tramp about the land. Macauley, at 35, was a proud and able swagman, i.e., itinerant sheep-station hand, who hated cities, where you always need "a penny for the slot and a key for the door." But he had a city wife until, on a visit home, he found her with another man. Breaking the bloke's jaw wasn't enough for Macauley; in a spiteful rage against his wife...
...lecturer, he has a colorful, dynamic style. In describing the Bengali flood plain he can wax eloquent, or in quoting Macauley he can turn on a mild, elegant English accent. His oratorical style has brought one student to complain that. That rooms they give him are too small. He'd sound better in Memorial Hall...
Died. Alvan Macauley, 80, longtime (1916-39) president and general manager of the Packard ("Ask the Man Who Owns One") Motor Car Co.; of uremic poisoning and pneumonia; in Clearwater, Fla. His favorite motto: "An hour of work" is better for America than "a dollar for dole...
...England and that World War I had given the coup de grâce. In the struggles and frustrations of one Christopher Tietjens (a name almost as un-English as Hueffer), Ford tried to express the gradual destruction of a way of life for which (as Ford Student Robie Macauley puts it) "the world is an equable and logical mechanism in which God, Man, and Nature have a balanced relationship...
Yale's high-scoring forward, Tony Lavelli, was named to the Associated Press All-America collegiate basketball team yesterday. Selected by a vote of 404 sportwriters, the team also includes Ed Macauley, of St. Louis, Alex Groza and Ralph Beard, of Kontucky, and Vince Boryla, of Denver...