Word: maddens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Indiana has nine Republican incumbents, only two Democrats. The two Democrats, Gary's eight-term Ray Madden, 66, and Evansville's four-term Winfield...
...Downey (205 pp.; Macmillan; $3), is a first novel which attempts a Joycean account of a day in the life of some citizens of a Southern capital, but often it seems more like a long afternoon spent in a botanical garden. From the very first page, when beautiful Stella Madden catches the delicate odor of spring, the prose thrusts up stalks of dracaena, carnations, ger-beras, tulips, coleuses, yaupon, oleander, jasmine, gladioli, magnolia and azalea. Even the characters come equipped with floral borders: Yancey, a condemned murderer, "clutches his hyacinth-red hair"; beautiful Stella thinks of herself...
...reader who hacks his way through this exotic vegetation discovers that Yancey is awaiting execution at the state penitentiary. This event clouds the day of Stella Madden, the governor's wife, and brings emotional upset to Lucy Warren, who once taught Yancey in school. By evening, Yancey is dead, Stella relieved, Lucy resigned. Along the way Author Downey explores the moods, memories and relationships of the two women. Scene after scene is interestingly done, but as a whole, the book is too much like the red japonicas Stella dotes over: dazzling but insubstantial...
...running away from head winds, got his F-100C Super Sabre jet to Oklahoma City with exactly one minute of fuel left. His nice calculations earned him the Bendix Trophy and a new Bendix record: 666.661 m.p.h. In second place, with 656.250 m.p.h. : Captain Robert A. Madden, a Korean veteran who spent 15 months as a PW. Although adverse winds edged them out of a supersonic trip, all six contestants, all flying North American F-100Cs, cracked the record of 616.208 m.p.h. set two years ago by Captain Edward Kenny...
Novelist Moore, for the most part, lets his characters describe each other with merciless Irish precision. Judith Hearne, alas, is "a boozer," "an ould fraud," and on one "day to end all," she is jostled from her waking daydream by the discovery that the "American" Madden is not rich and does not want to marry her. The only fortune he ever made was compensation for being run down by a city bus, and he wanted the old maid's money to start a "hamburg joint" for Yankee tourists...