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...Ansiau, knight and onetime Crusader, sets out on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, becomes blind on the way, is captured in the Holy Land by the infidel and lashed to a mill which he is forced to turn like an ox. His son Herbert le Gros, a gay blade who lives life to the hilt, meanwhile sticks to the manor, takes all the land and love he can get, and happily commits incest with his wild and passionate half sister, who hates him ("I shall . . . make his blood rot, send snakes to drink his eyes, and leeches to suck his heart...
...last week, the little town of Follansbee, W.Va. got a reprieve-and then a full pardon. Follansbee's doom seemed to be sealed by the deal under which Promoter Frederick W. Richmond would buy out the town's major employer, Follansbee Steel Corp., and sell the mill and inventories to Republic Steel Corp. for dismantling and shipment down South (TIME, Sept. 27; Nov. 8). At the last minute, Federal District Judge Herbert S. Boreman stepped in. He declared last week that the Follansbee stockholders vote approving the deal was null and void on the ground that Follansbee management...
Eaton announced that he would buy the mill from Richmond for an undisclosed sum and keep it operating right where it is. Cy Eaton, who had put in a bid for Follansbee a month before, and failed, won the mill this time because Republic Steel agreed to call off its deal with Richmond. No news could have pleased Follansbee more. Said the steel company's general foreman, Boyd McCall: "This is the best Christmas present the people of Follansbee could get. And Mr. Eaton is the Santa Claus...
...stories grew, Headmaster Miller began to get suspicious. He looked up Christopher's new property on the public school list, found no such place as Marlborough at Mill Hill. After telephoning Christopher's father, he also found that the boy had no uncle and no inheritance. Last week, as Headmaster Miller good-naturedly tried to decide what sort of punishment would fit Christopher's crime ("He broke every rule. But it was all so diabolically clever"), London's newspapers were having a field day. "What a corker!" cried the Daily Express. "Boy's Hoax Takes...
Yerby started out trying to write "serious" fiction. In 1944 he worked up a Richard Wrighteous novel about a boy in the steel mills. "A perfectly terrible book," says Yerby now. "I was in love with Bessemer furnaces - an unrewarding kind of a romance." Yerby then made his decision. He quit his foundry job and went to New York. He told the Dial Press's George Joel, the only publisher who had shown a faint interest in his steel-mill epic, that he wanted to try a fast historical opus. On the strength of 27 pages turned...