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...HARDER THEY FALL (343 pp.)-Budd Schulberg-Random House...
Gene Tunney, most scholarly of the ex-world heavyweight champs, turned up in the Saturday Review of Literature as a literary critic. Novelist Budd Schulberg's pugilistic The Harder They Fall) wrote Critic Tunney, was "a vulgar book about vulgar people," but "very cleverly written." He read it twice, declared the retired champ: "I did not get the full significance of its gems of wit . . . until the second reading...
...manly art of modified murder, as the late ringsider W. O. McGeehan called it, has supplied Budd Schulberg, 33, with a subject even seamier than the gaudy and greedy Hollywood of his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? In The Harder They Fall, professional prize fighting is presented as a thoroughly crooked and brutal business. This point of view is entirely tenable, but as the theme of a full-length novel it gets tiresome. All the shocking details that Schulberg desperately dishes up cannot disguise the sophomoric quality of his storytelling, and readers will end up feeling that his book...
...assemble the curious document, U.S. moviemen, including Commander Ray Kellogg and Lieutenant Budd (What Makes Sammy Run) Schulberg, tracked down film which was hidden in cellars, locked in vaults and plastered in farmhouse walls throughout Europe. The result is a pretty full record of the little group of Nazi orators from bustling youth to beribboned...
...Benjamin Schulberg...