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William Hunter, 14, lived with his mother and stepfather in Paterson, N. J. A sixth-grader, a lanky boy with a triangular face and messed-up sandy hair, he had an ordinary reputation in the neighborhood-a little behind in his schoolwork, just got a new typewriter, attended Sunday school regularly, was not allowed to run around at night and/or talk back to his mother...
...PROVE FAIR WEATHER-Isabel Paterson-Putnam...
...Isabel Paterson has all the best qualities of a chipmunk, including a love of stone walls and a sidelong, quizzical look. The resemblance would be still more marked if chipmunks wore lorgnettes. Her impish weekly literary column in the New York Herald Tribune, "Turns With a Bookworm," is appropriately signed I. M. P. Between columns Critic Paterson writes novels for much the same reason that the Irishman liked to be hit on the head-because they cause her so much anguish that mere personal calamities shrivel by comparison...
...meaning of the words; and then what Christine thinks I mean; and the associational ideas in my mind, drawn from individual experience; and then the equivalent but entirely different points of reference in Christine's mind, to which I have no clue." Many a reader who admires Critic Paterson's flip newspaper way will shake a puzzled head over If It Prove Fair Weather. Those who are not scared off by its slow and mazy manner will enjoy its seriousness and sly competence...
Fortnight ago, still staring hard, Mrs. Mary Klein appeared in Paterson with her daughter, Juliet. She commandeered a detective, went looking for Leo Pigola. Finally she found him, hawking fruit from a truck. She had him arrested, taken to court. There she charged him with desertion, told the judge that Leo Pigola was really Ballou Klein, her husband, who had disappeared in 1922 with their savings of several hundred dollars, stranding her with three infants. In vain Mr. Pigola protested that he was a Polish immigrant who had landed in the U. S. in 1921, had never be fore laid...