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DWELL IN THE WILDERNESS-Alvah C. Bessie-Covici, Friede ($2.50). The story of a Midwestern family dominated by a neurotic mother whose sexual frustration wrecked the lives of her husband and children...
...VOICE OF BUGLE ANN-MacKinlay Kantor-Coward-McCann ($1.25). MacKinlay Kantor has long revealed a preoccupation with native Midwestern themes and legends of the sort that characterize folk literature. The Jaybird, his novel of a wandering Civil War musician who befriended a Kansas waif, was a sentimental tale for which modern small towns provided an incongruous and unromantic background. Author Kantor now returns to the mood and manner of The Jaybird with a slight, short novel in which a Missouri legend of a wonderful foxhound serves as the frail basis for a story involving revenge, murder and a family feud...
...unyielding desire for savage revenge. Although Oliver La Farge's stories of them, when analyzed, prove to be written around oldfashioned, commonplace plots of undying love or hate, they have the distinction of making Indian rites and traditions seem as human and amiable as college proms or midwestern barn dances...
...late George Pullman (sleeping cars) withdrew in a huff, left the convention delegates with but one answer to the question "Who but Hoover?" Last week Mr. Lowden, 74. was no longer a candidate but his work and words were still an important factor in Midwestern Republicanism. And furthermore he was about to be the chief speaker at a great Republican rally at Springfield, Ill. Mr. Hoover, who attends no rallies, wanted to see him first. What they had to discuss appeared that evening when a newshawk caught up with Pilgrim Hoover in Chicago. In one sentence Mr. Hoover described their...
Three years ago Milo Reno, Des Moines farmer-insurance man, made a national stir when his Farmers' Holiday Association began blockading Midwestern cities by barring produce trucks and trains. Since then, though his fame has waned, he still puts on a good show for his followers. Last year at their annual meeting in Des Moines he had Priest Coughlin as speaker. This year he invited Huey Long, Governor Olson of Minnesota. Governor Talmadge of Georgia and again Priest Coughlin. Had Mr. Reno got them all he would have had an all-star cast for a Third Party Follies...