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...triangular meet Friday, the entire squad of 34 will start. Nor will there be any cut during the whole season, However, time trials at a later date will determine the ten harriers to run against Yale and Princeton at New Raven Friday, November...
...with which he follows his own. The Jackson of Summer was a man who played a role in political movements; Bassett sought vainly to imbue life into notes which scarcely left his library cubicle; Parton's was the unmodified hero of local tradition. Taking cue from his Pulitzer prize "Raven" of 1929, Mr. James meticulously introduces the reader to the individuals with whom Jackson came into contact, and allows "Old Hickory" to evolve his own character through the medium of direct quotation and factual narration...
...most satisfying, this is also the most difficult method. But the character artist of the "Raven" has lost none of his salty skill. John Quincy Adams is the "thin-lipped, perspiring New Englander, who had spent a third of his life abroad"; James Monroe "The raw-boned, six-foot President . . . a shy man, an able lieutenant, though a mediocre chief." There is young "Capt. Fort, speaking freely and a trifle importantly"; and plump little Rachel, "a frontier woman, clinging to the fragile images of a bygone day that had witnessed her last touch with happiness." Mr. James sketches these...
...does not carry Jackson's epic career through its Presidential conclusion but ends it with his retirement in 1821 when, full of honorable scars, Old Hickory was willing to call his day a day. More ambitious attempt than Author James's prizewinning life of Sam Houston (The Raven), Andrew Jackson is no .ess stirring a biographical achievement...
Chief comedienne is dry-voiced Helen Broderick. who variously impersonates a streetwalker, an inmate of a maternity ward, a deceiving wife. Harriet Hoctor. wanly unreal as a porcelain figure, does her old raven dance and a couple of others. Offsetting this wholesome influence is an abandoned fellow named Milton Berle (to rhyme with "peril") whom Producer Carroll has chosen for his chief male funster...