Word: omnibuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Part III of "The Constitution," with Lawyer Joseph N. Welch...
...WILLIAM MARCH OMNIBUS, with an Introduction by Alistair Cooke (397 pp.)-Rinehart...
...Lurid Moment. This omnibus is welcome if only for the reissue of Company K, which belongs in trench literature with Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That, Richard Aldington's Death of a Hero and John Dos Passes' Three Soldiers. When it was published (1933), one critic called it a sort of Spoon River Anthology of the war. The form was the same, in the sense that each character spoke with his own voice to compose a harsh recitative for a community. But March's community was made up of the doomed dogfaces of Soissons...
...World War I, Alabama-born William March became wealthy as a vice president of the Waterman Steamship Corp. After Company K's brief success, he left business for full-time writing, without getting any highbrow attention. His work, in addition to Company K, is well represented in this omnibus, with a short version of another novel, October Island, twelve fables and 21 short stories...
...Omnibus (Sun. 5 p.m., CBS). Yugoslav National Folk Ballet...