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...brilliant writing. Its central character is a comic grotesque called Wilt, a washed-out, oldtime, expatriate newspaperman, middleaged, garrulous, full of stories he never got around to writing. In a promising beginning, Wilt is introduced on a Paris street corner in mysterious talk with a big, naïve pal named Bernie, a medical student just arrived from the Midwest in hopes of meeting his hero, a famed French toxicologist. Wilt, who had met Bernie only a few hours before, offers to arrange the meeting...
...hydrogen-charged balloon and its long distance perambulations which weren't long distance at all. ... It all came out in the early wash the day after the letter arrived that a member of the chemistry class which released the balloon had connived with a pen-pal in Singapore to mail the letter, which he himself wrote. The prank-loving student felt the qualms of conscience and 'fessed up when his classmates collected a sum of money to send to the "Chinese old man" to redeem the balloon...
Hero is Jig's pal, Shelly Bayliss, a man's man, though he has a queer habit of saving money, not drinking or chasing women. Heroine is Florabelle, beautiful, long-legged daughter of the ritzy, skinflint widow at whose house Jig and Shelly are boarders. Halfway through the book Author Haines begins feeding his melodrama all the voltage it will stand. At the climax -a big train wreck-Author Haines throws his switches in time to save his hero & heroine for a wedding, but not soon enough to save his story from the unmistakable frying smell that goes...
...clan of big, bearded, hell-raising moonshiners and horse traders. Occasionally his pa takes him to visit a hearty old woman who lives in a village on the St. Johns River. He sees a flood, afterward goes hunting where stranded wild animals are thicker than flies. Jody's pal is a pet fawn. He takes it on hunting trips, even sleeps with it when he can get around his fussy, practical ma. The idyl ends when hard scrub reality forces him to kill his fawn because it cannot be kept out of the corn patch...
Stanley remained unconsolable for the loss of his canine pal, killed Wednesday afternoon by a car which only barely missed the boy himself. Completely forgetful of his own narrow escape, he could only bewail his 'Patsy...