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...University of North Carolina, Man-About-Books Malcolm (Exile's Return) Cowley took one of Chapel Hill's best-known grads down a peg. Thomas (Look Homeward, Angel) Wolfe was not the great modern American novelist (as claimed by none other than Novelist William Faulkner), in fact rates below both Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway, argued Critic Cowley, adding: "Wolfe never broke out of writing expanded lyric poems about himself...
...nature of Baruch's services to the U.S. from his days as "czar"' of Woodrow Wilson's War Industries Board to the days when he presented to the U.N. the U.S.'s "Baruch Plan" for control of atomic energy. She also uses Baruch as a peg on which to hang gratuitous, chapter-length histories of Woodrow Wilson's Administration, World Wars I and II. the Roaring Twenties, the Depression, etc. Standing at the cribside of modern history, Author Coit is footnotoriously conscientious, but the $7.50 tag her publishers have placed on her services...
Chuck Berry was succeeded by Eddie Cochrane, a little man with a big guitar. The Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll lit a cigarillo. "Too many people stereotype us--pleated peg pants and blue suede shoes; a calypso shirt and a black leather jacket--and axle grease to part our hair. Not true...
...fish. At the top of a first-rate cast, which included Walter Slezak, Martyn Green and Stubby Kaye, was 37-year-old Mickey Rooney, who somehow managed to keep ubiquitous Mickey Rooney out of the act and gave a remarkably apt performance as the wooden boy with the tent-peg nose...
...various expeditions, soon learned to talk, live, love like an Eskimo. In 1912 Freuchen and his friend Knud Rasmussen crossed the north Greenland icecap. Childlike in his daring, steel-girded in his endurance, he once (1923) hammered off the frozen toes of his left foot, hopped actively on a peg leg after a subsequent amputation. With his face also frozen, Freuchen grew a full red beard, only shaved briefly to be less recognizable when he joined the wartime resistance in Nazi-held Denmark. In 1945 he settled in Manhattan as U.N. correspondent for Copenhagen's Politiken...