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People called Milt a tom-walker† because he lost a leg marching through Georgia with Sherman, and thereafter wore a peg strapped to the stump. One day in 1866, when he was barely 17, Milt swung himself off the steam cars at Cincinnati and hobbled off to see his family again and his best girl. Lucinda took one look at his peg leg and wept. But they were married anyhow, and after the ceremony the bridegroom got drunk, punched his best man in the teeth, and sang bawdy songs for the guests. "Oh, the vulgar, degrading army," moaned...
This novel by Nebraska's Mari Sandoz trails Milt the Tom-Walker and his descendants for 80-odd years into the future. It is practically three books in one: like Miss Sandoz' Old Jules, a character study; like her Slogum House, a family chronicle; like her Capital City, a crankily "liberal" political tract. Small shakes as a novel, it is long on period history, melodrama, local color and wondrously rowdy soldier, sod-hut and ranch-house talk...
Like Decent People. Beaten Milt Murray declined to be renominated, and got loud applause for saying: "There has been some pretty vicious politics . . . and I contributed my share. We've fought like a bunch of goddam kids. Let's see if we can't grow up and act like decent people...
...Editor & Publisher statement flew in the face of the Guild constitution, which protects newsmen from being barred from Guild membership "by reasons of sex, race, or religious or political convictions." The Congress statement made a lot of good Guildsmen think that talkative Milt Murray was talking out of turn. It brought angry denials from Los Angeles and New York, and rebukes from five other strong locals. Said the Executive Board of the St. Louis local: "... A deliberate and calculated campaign to undermine the responsible position which the Guild now occupies...
Milton Reynolds is a shrewd salesman who will go to any lengths to publicize his ball-point pens. Last week, he went about as far as he could go-around the world, faster than anyone had ever gone before. As an advertising and promotional stunt, Milt Reynolds' record-breaking flight was well worth the $175,000 it cost. As a flying feat of luck and endurance, it was even more notable...