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...bossed an empire of 13 magazines and ten newspapers (True Story, True Detective, Liberty, etc.) with a total estimated monthly circulation of 16 million; of jaundice, aggravated by a three-day fast; in Jersey City. The frail son of an alcoholic father and a tuberculous mother, Macfadden was an orphan at eight. In 1898 he founded Physical Culture magazine ("Weakness is a crime. Don't be a criminal''). By 1931 he admitted to a fortune of $30 million. Married four times and the father of nine, Faddist Macfadden's simpler tenets included "grass eating, having babies...
Peering like a wrestling referee among the writhing limbs of this melee, the reader can detect one hero: a blond, blue-eyed orphan with a medical discharge from the Air Force, named Sergius O'Shaugnessy. Dropping napalm on Korean villages has upset him deeply (he has, in fact, become temporarily impotent), so naturally he Wants to Write. His methods are interesting. He takes a $14,000 stake to a desert gambling resort called Desert D'Or, 200 miles from Hollywood-a suburb in the literary country of tough-guy nihilism mapped by James M. Cain, Dashiell Hammett...
...grown firmer. The result is that author and hero steadily mature in opposite directions. Equally upsetting is the fact that Reid did not bother to fit his three parts together very neatly. Tom enjoys two parents and a granny in the first two volumes and becomes an abrupt orphan in the third. To lose one parent, as Lady Bracknell suggests in The Importance of Being Earnest, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both seems like carelessness...
...View from the Bridge concerns Eddie Carbone, a kindly longshoreman who has brought up his wife's orphan niece (Gloria Marlowe) with his own family. All goes well until he takes into his home two Sicilian cousins who have entered the U.S. illegally. The niece and one of the cousins (Richard Davalos)-a blond youth who likes to sing and cook-fall in love. Eddie's intense, unrealized sexual feeling for the niece drives him to jealous rancors. He taunts the girl that the boy seeks marriage only as a way of gaining citizenship; he tries to make...
...KINGS, by Davis Grubb (357 pp.; Scribner; $3.95). Abijah Hornbrook was just a Virginia ne'er-do-well who left his family to fend for themselves, but his eight-year-old daughter, Cathie, was sure that he would return some day a king. So was Tom, the orphan with whom she was raised. Tom had a vision of Abijah "high and lofty on a frothing mare ... a giant printed on the sky." Tom tells his own first-person story of how he grows to manhood in the Civil War South, thinking he hates Cathie, but really loving...