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...Pal Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...
...nature of right and wrong has changed"). Considering Author Fast's onetime reputation, the book will take its minor place in the long shelf of disillusion, alongside the works of such better writers as Koestler, Silone, Orwell, Malraux. The fact remains that Big Brother's U.S. pen pal has a conscience that seems to work slower than most. In accounting terms, he might be described as LILO-last in, last...
...Pal Joey. A mildly anemic version of the full-blooded Broadway musical-with Frank Sinatra supplying a strong jolt of the glamour vitamin (TIME...
Colonel & Teddy Boy. The reader may feel surprised that Kennie, the moron Teddy boy, should pal around with characters spouting Blake and Dostoevsky, until Wilson's subtle point is clear. His fantasies of violence and his vision of life march-suede shoe by scuffed boot-the same dark path. Cleverly, Author Wilson both evokes and deplores the spirit that may find words among intellectuals and find action in the Teddy boy. To make his point, Wilson introduces a figure of the old order, one Colonel Lambourn, who carries about maps of mysterious defense zones and obscure treasure troves...
Died. Martin T. Lacey, 75 (less one day), iron-jawed, dent-nosed sparkplug (since 1903) of the New York labor front, kingpin Teamsters union leader who fought the Beck-Hoffa-Dio racketeers for his New York Teamsters' Joint Council 16 presidency but lost it to Hoffa's pal, John J. O'Rourke, last January; of a heart attack in his sleep; in Washington Township...