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...first carriers built as such were the old Lexington and Saratoga* Radford got duty on the Sara in 1929, within a year was skipper of the carrier's Fighting Squadron One. This outfit became known as the High Hat Squadron, and astounded the country with virtuoso exhibitions of precision acrobatics. Radford was a superbly confident and skillful pilot by that time, but he was more than a mere stunter. He was interested in precision flying, precision machines, precision methods of making...
...Traveler seems like a shrieking sister of the Herald, but unlike most Boston papers, it often has the courage to shriek in crusades against political shenanigans and incompetent bureaucrats. Last year, its able newshen Sara White wrote a series which helped reinstate Miriam Van Waters, a competent reformatory superintendent who had been fired for too progressive penal methods. Last week, Reporter White also won freedom for a pregnant mother of four children, imprisoned for neglect without having been given legal counsel. But neither the Traveler nor any other Boston paper printed the prison record of J. Joseph Connors, appointed...
Author Gary has given them warning. In Herself Surprised (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948), the first novel of his trilogy, he not only created a fresh and startling heroine in the person of lusty, busty Sara Monday but also planned her amoral meanderings so dexterously that no one could ever guess what quirk or crazy character would show up just around the next corner. In Novel No. 2, To Be a Pilgrim (TIME, April 18), Sara played second fiddle to her sugar daddy, wealthy old Tom Wilcher, who not only gave his version of life with Sara but carried their joint...
...Horse's Mouth it is the turn of Artist Gulley Jimson, one of man-eating Sara's three ex-husbands, to take the story on its final rounds. Gulley comes prancing out of jail into the middle of the picture on Page One and except for a brief retirement (a six-month stretch for stealing a wealthy patron's diamond-studded snuffboxes) he holds the center of the stage to the very...
...Will to Live. Author Gary's theme is simple. He sees Gulley Jimson as he saw fertile Sara Monday-as the epitome of the will to live and to create at all costs. Starvation, jail and beatings-up mean only one thing to dedicated Artist-Genius Gulley-they tend to interrupt his work. And because his work in middle age must proceed faster than ever, Gulley will stop at nothing to get himself food, money and time...