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Commentator offices, on east Main Street overlooking the lake, are a two-story frame building with green shutters. Natives call it the old Sawyer's Blacksmith shop. From Editor Eggleston's office he might easily fish in a babbling brook that flows out of the lake past the building. The Commentator has taken a five-year lease. With wives and families the Commentator migration numbered about 20; they live in six houses overlooking the lake. Editor Eggleston took along his cruising sloop. Publisher Payson remained in Manhattan, will go to Lake Geneva once a month for editorial conference...
...mild man with shoulders like goal posts and an appetite for hard work, long hours and a pipe that smells like an unfrequented sulphur sink in Yellowstone Park. Son of a Hannibal, Mo. locomotive engineer (as a boy he saw Hannibal's first citizen, Mark Twain, explored Tom Sawyer's cave), Nelson worked his way through the University of Missouri waiting on tables, where he studied human nature by observing the reactions of students on whom he spilled hot gravy...
...most constant source of sagebrush sagas, the conventional eclogue on the majesty of ranch life has been switched to an offensive against the pitfalls of the city by showing the studio's crack cowboy taking a lacing from the rough, tough Wildhack Boys (Barton MacLane, Joseph Sawyer, Horace MacMahon) after a few months in a Hollywood broadcasting studio have softened up the Autry biceps. It is not a pretty sight...
...little misleading. As an intellectual volcano, the Mark Twain of this book is tired and nearing extinction. Some of the material was dictated circa 1898, but most of it after 1906. Twain had previously written his great books (the first half of Life on the Mississippi, Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn). He had met all the right people, shaken all the right hands. He was utterly lonely. For most of his life Twain remained, as he still is, the last major U. S. literary voice...
...junior quartet of scampering Bob Blood, who raced away for a 20-yard touchdown jaunt against Hobart, Tom Mulroy, Obie Slingerland and Perry Sawyer is also available. Blood seems to have answered the Jeffs' kicking problem while Sweeny and Slingerland, the latter out of action all last year due to scholastic deficlencies, took care of the serial display. Mulroy, also forced to serve as bench ballast in '39 by injuries, seems destined to reach the peak predicted for him last year, turning in a brilliant bit of work against Hobart...