Word: macklin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Richard Chopping. 291 pages. Farrar, Straus & Giroux. $4.95. On the jacket of this book squats a huge hairy fly-no doubt attracted by the offal inside. There is Mrs. Macklin, a black widow in sweaty corsets, who works days as caretaker of a dreary British office and prowls the night looking for someone to take care of her; Mr. Gender, an amorous Prufrock with boils; Miss Jeacock, a withered office virgin who lures a young clerk to the ladies' room and ecstatically dies of a surfeit. The clerk flees the jakes in horror but is blackmailed by Mrs. Macklin...
...because we know that many a lawyer is unscrupulous and will advise his client to say nothing, even when he knows that his client is guilty." The ruling, sighed Los Angeles County Counsel John Collins, "gives the criminal one more advantage." Perhaps so, answered Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Macklin Fleming, but he added that it was a problem competent and hard-working police should be able to take in stride...
...most famous writers in America-a world-prowling literary lion who became the most flamboyantly successful reporter of his era, created the archetype of the war correspondent, wrote four hit plays (The Dictator, Ransom's Folly) and six superselling novels (Soldiers of Fortune, Captain Macklin), all offering scarum adventure, pedestalized love and impeccable sophomorality. And on top of that, Davis was "Richard the Lion Harding," a playboy-adventurer who touched glasses with kings and brushed elbows with death, the best-dressed man on five continents and a dozen battlefields, an image of masculine beauty who sat as Charles Dana...