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Saroyan's cute childhood, his poverty, his poignant memory of every hamburger he ever ate, his nutty relatives-the subjects of most of his previous stories-are the subjects of about half of the 35 stories in The Trouble With Tigers. The other half-exhibiting Saroyan's fiercest inhaling and exhaling to date-consists of stories about Hollywood and essays on the contemporary idiocy of Man in general. Besides working last year as a cinema writer, Saroyan evidently studied up on Dostoyevsky and Whitman...
Although Captain Bob Green and left tackle Tom Healey played well over three periods, others on the team received more respite than in any previous game--hence the battering is even more extraordinary. Coach Dick Harlow appeared visibly worried (he could hardly be expected to be overjoyed about the licking Princeton gave Yale, making the Elis a dangerous 1-3 underdog for Saturday, but he declared that he would definitely have a scrimmage this week if possible...
Foul & Foul? Premier Daladier had not replied this week to Premier Konoye's hint that Indo-China must adopt a "Closed Door" policy on munitions. But the Japanese Government were revealed to have received, on October 6, a note from Washington presented by Ambassador Joseph Clark Grew, repeating previous U. S. demands that Japan return to an "Open Door" trade policy for China...
...presidency. Smallish but strongly built Candidate Gustavo Ross, who made his millions as a stockmarket operator and now annoys Chileans by keeping most of his money safely abroad, was supported by the Liberal, Conservative and Agrarian parties. His potent backers were Chile's hacendados, the Agrarians. whose previous man had been President Alessandri...
Because history is at best violent, violence crowds his books. In Man's Hope, as in his previous work, he writes most intensely of those moments when hope has finally vanished from men's lives-when the revolution has failed or the plans fallen through, when escape has been frustrated, pardon refused, when even suicide has been prevented and nothing remains but the certainty of execution. The questions that haunt his novels like a strain of sombre music are these: What happens to men when they know they will die with no chance to struggle against their fate...