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...Twin Football Stars Harry and Robert Beaube of Gadsden, Ala.'s Emma Sansom High School looked so good to an Auburn (Alabama Polytechnic Institute) coach that he offered the boys $500 each to make a run-of-the-mill athletic scholarship look a little more attractive. Southeastern Conference Commissioner Bernie Moore promptly fined Auburn $2,000 for violating recruiting rules. (So far as the conference is concerned, the twins may sign with any school but Auburn.) Said Auburn President Ralph B. Draughon: "In our opinion, the rivalries in the recruiting of athletes in Alabama are reminiscent of the Guelphs...
...fourth of the book is taken up with unsparing accounts of World War II. Expertly written-if by now rather familiar-are the deadpan horrors of Alan Moorehead's graphic Belsen and the explosive shock of a Sunday-morning air raid in London as described by William Sansom in Building Alive. Often, Horizon's writers add a reflective dimension to war reporting possible only to men who have known a country before it became the enemy. In Rhineland Journal, Poet Stephen Spender sensitively compares pre-Nazi to postwar Germany and also tells of the human ruins in terms...
...FACE OF INNOCENCE (253 pp.]-William Sansom - Harcourt, Brace...
Anyone expecting a crime of passion at this point reckons without the glacial restraint of modern British novelists. Author William Sansom muzzles the tiger in the blood in order to muster a conversational mouse in the drawing room. In The Face of Innocence, the crisp, angled light of his prose gives the mouse an exaggerated shadow. So does his main theme: that things are rarely what they seem...
This comparatively happy ending seems more likable than likely. But then, Novelist Sansom's aromatic dish of climate and characters has not been cooked on the fierce front burner of profound truths anyway...