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...THOU THE BRIDE-Christine Weston -Scribner ($2.50). A first novel, laid in Maine, plumb full of Balzacian characters: a violent-blooded patriarch, three bastards, two idiots, a miscellany of neurotics and misfits. In two generations their collective activities include a sex murder, several adulteries, a heap of frustrations and painful deaths, with only a gentle, all-forgiving girl named Fortune and leathery Grandmother Noakes to relieve the psychopathic shadows...
...various times in his life Wang Ching-wei pretended devotion for the patriarch of Chinese revolution, Dr. Sun Yatsen, deserted him, later worked for him again, watched lovingly over his deathbed; studied in Japan on Imperial Scholarships awarded by the Manchu dynasty, tried to assassinate the Manchu Prince Regent; praised Russian Communism and opposed a young rival named Chiang Kai-shek because Chiang was such a conservative, then abandoned Communism and joined Chiang in condemnation of Japan, finally deserted Chiang to become Japan's best friend in China...
...While Patriarch Albert Maverick alternately glared and dozed, while the charges against Maury's co-defendants were dismissed, leaving Maury to stand alone, his trial raged in a superheated courtroom. A defense witness accused Burkett of once saying he wanted to get rid of Maury. A feminine witness for the prosecution admitted having called Maury "a crumb." Maury's 14-year-old daughter drew a picture of a devil with a forked tail, labeled it "Gittinger" ("Buck" Gittinger, Shock's assistant). Judge Bryce Ferguson, "Ma" Ferguson's nephew, slumped down in his chair almost...
...dignified diversion is Republican politics (finance committee) in Democratic Missouri; scholarly Henning Webb Prentis Jr., president of Armstrong Cork, No. 1 U. S. linoleum producer; rock-ribbed John Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil Co., financial angel of the Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing so well in spite...
...open secret that the late Rumanian Patriarch Miron Cristea, onetime Regent and later Premier, had affairs with numerous pretty chorus girls. Usual Rumanian comment: "More power...