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Decadence & Death. English Author Malcolm Lowry, who is 38, spent the better part of the past ten years writing Under the Volcano, while roaming over half the face of the globe as tourist and merchant seaman. The setting of Under the Volcano is chiefly a run-down villa in the Mexican town of Quauhnahuac (presumably modeled on the popular Anglo-American "colony" of Cuernavaca, where Author Lowry once lived). In the villa, matching its decay with his own collapse, lives Geoffrey Firmin, onetime British vice-consul in Quauhnahuac, now a mentally tortured, helpless dipsomaniac. Upon him, one bright morning-just...
...Foil; Seaman defeated Vera (H) 5-2; Van Roosen (H) defeated Seaman 5-4; Weil defeated Hubbard (H) 5-2, Edelman (H) 5-1, and Barrieelli (H) 5-1; Abbate defeated Raney (H) 5-3, and Hubbard (H) 5-1; Barrieelli (H) defeated Abbate 5-3, and Seaman...
epee: Johnson (H) defeated Seman 3-1; Weil and Abbate defeated Johnson (H) 3-1; Duke (H) defeated Weil 3-0; Abbate and Seaman defeated Duke (H) 3-0; Masterson (H) defeated Weil and Abbate 3-0; Seaman defeated Masterson...
Back in the century when the King James Bible was hot off the press, and England and Holland fought for New Amsterdam, Seaman Edward Coxere spun the hair-raising story of his life in simple-seaman's language, and sewed the quires shipshape in vellum. Rats alone chewed over the MS. until 1940, when it was unearthed by a London book dealer...
...bloody, 33-week Allis-Chalmers strike (TIME, Nov. 11). In a bold sweep, the right-wingers captured all top offices and 15 out of 26 seats on the state council. The new president: Milwaukee's Herman Steffes, right-wing head of U.A.W.'s Local 75 at the Seaman Body division of Nash-Kelvinator...