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HUMAN BEING-Christopher Morley-Doubleday...
Christopher Morley, whose taste is not always unexceptionable, might have picked a better name for his latest hero than Richard Roe. The name, with other Roe-ish actions and qualities, will irresistibly remind many a reader who has seen the Pulitzer-Prizewinning Of Thee I Sing of that forgotten man, Alexander Throttlebottom. Author Morley has not tried to make his hero heroic but he has certainly not intended to go to the other extreme and make him vicepresidential...
Instead of telling his story straight out, Author Morley is at some pains, though ineffectually, to convince the reader that a casual acquaintance was so impressed by Hero Roe's unimpressive personality and fate that he determined to write a really microscopically fair biography of him. In spite of this unnecessary ring-around-a-rosy, the facts of the story gradually emerge. Roe was an ordinary but wide-eyed, simple young man. When he married Lucille, became a father, Manhattan apartment-dweller, traveling salesman for a big publisher, he thought everything was fine. But Lucille's clay...
...Author Morley has kept himself fairly strictly to the matter in hand, has apparently almost sublimated his sense of pun-as may be seen from such an example as ''treble yell." Some readers will be enraged, as usual, by his occasional genteel vulgarity-in speaking of one about to be sick as "going to be ill"; of a woman's being able to "really settle down in the sedentary comfort for which women are so charmingly cushioned...
...shooting sheriff of Mineral County. He was in Washington, D. C. begging the R. F. C. to lend Nevada $2,000,000. Most of the banks of his arid State were at an impasse. When the loan did not come through, Governor Balzar communicated with his Lieutenant Governor Morley Griswold. As a result of that communication, Nevada's 91,000 citizens awoke from their celebration to find' 19 of their 26 banks closed, $20,000,000 of their $30,000,000 in bank deposits tied up. Lieutenant Governor Griswold had proclaimed a 12-day moratorium on all obligations...