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This is for the last of the New England-novel readers-the people who have stayed the course from The Scarlet Letter to The Late George Apley. These hardy few may recall no more demanding reading along the route; by comparison with Bronson, Henry James' The Bostonians is an act of primer realism. But what a brilliant, erratic goodbye this book is to all those Puritan ghosts who, for two centuries of fiction, have haunted the Concord woods and the cobbled streets of Beacon Hill...
...lifetime of crime, Willie ("the Actor") Sutton robbed banks of almost $2,000,000 and went through more disguises than the Scarlet Pimpernel. During the course of one bank heist or another, Sutton, 69, who served 35 years in prison before being paroled last Christmas Eve, popped up in a variety of roles that included a policeman, a window washer, a bank guard and a Western Union messenger. Last week the Actor was at it again -this time with star billing in a television commercial for Connecticut's New Britain Bank & Trust...
...label called KKK, showing a fiery cross on a scarlet background, featured the 100 per cent Americans playing Why I am a Klansman. Today a comparable mood can be observed in Reb Rebel records whose anti-black jokes on NAACP Flight 105 reportedly sold over a million copies in the southeast...
...Skimpy Scarlet...
...Rutgers didn't largely because Harvard's defense was turning in another good performance. The Scarlet Knights gained barely more than 100 yards in total offense...