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They Ran Him Home. Walter Webb, big, strong and blue-eyed, was once a soldier and twice married. He was too vivid to be ignored, too likable when sober, too lethal when drunk. He killed his best friend in a quarrel over local politics and was put away for two years, although Doric always said, "He done it in self-defense." In 1944, to avenge another killing, Webb and a friend shot down a man in broad daylight at Hen's Corner, a moonshine saloon in the county seat of Manchester (pop. 1,706). Under oath Webb testified...
...surprised by the nature of his new job. In the retiring librarian, the University has had a professional, a man who, during his years as Director, became nationally respected as an administrator. Mr. Metcalf's retirement left the administration with a major appointment on its hands. Yet few will quarrel with the new choice...
Refusal to Appear. The take-off had taken a long time in coming-since June, in fact, when Yoshida was originally scheduled to depart but was held back by a rousing brawl in the quaintly violent Japanese Diet. The quarrel was still on last week, much of it over Premier Yoshida, his independent and often highhanded conduct, his refusal to appear before a committee investigating reports of large-scale bribery involving Yoshida's administration and shipping interests. Some of his opponents paraded the streets and demonstrated before the Premier's house to prevent his departure, but Yoshida felt...
...Fable, takes the book neither as an opportunity to grovel before the master nor to throw dirt in his face. Nor is he mesmerized by the Christ analogies, but instead considers the equally important Faulknerian themes of sacrifice and human dignity as they appear in the book. My only quarrel with the review, in fact, is its conclusion, wherein Buechler, after making what seemed like a good analysis of a bad book, urges it upon the unsuspecting reader: "Any book of Faulkner's deserves to be read and considered simply because of what it is about, what...
they'll quarrel over it days and days...