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Thirty years ago, Sherwood Anderson was writing stories about small-towners who could never decide what they wanted to be. His masterpiece, The Triumph of the Egg, was a grotesque fable in which a farmer, dreaming of becoming a poultry king, wound up defeated, broke and lonely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Lonesome Road | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

Nebraska-born Wright Morris does more than dedicate his new novel to Sherwood Anderson: in an almost filial gesture, he consciously patterns his story on Anderson's work. The locale of The Works of Love is Anderson's sleepy Midwest of the 1900s. Its style is an echo of Anderson's tone of baffled affection. And it focuses on an inarticulate man, Will Jennings Brady, who mistakenly tries to become a go-getter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Lonesome Road | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

...fine gift for evoking the monotony of village streets at the turn of the century, the mustiness of shabby hotels, the pathos of a man who cannot communicate with other men. When he goes astray, it is usually because he tries too hard to follow the narrow path of Sherwood Anderson's imagination. A writer as good as Wright Morris doesn't need to imitate anyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: That Lonesome Road | 3/10/1952 | See Source »

After a scoreless first period, Harris opened the scoring by intercepting a Green pass in the defensive zone, and boat McMahon from 30 feet, unassisted, at 8:47, Dartmouth tied it up at 15:16 when Irving Sherwood oushed Richardson's glove over the goal-mouth line after he had caught the puck. Jeb Bray slapped in a face-off a minute later, however, to put the Crimson shead for good, Amory Hubbard scored on a Dusty Burke pass-out just before the period ended. In the final period Bufke and Harris both converted rebounds for scores, while Jack Titus...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harris' Two Goals Lead Six To 5-2 Win Over Dartmouth | 2/21/1952 | See Source »

Amory Hubbard tallied the eventual winning tally on the prettiest goal of the night (and the season), with the Crimson down a man' Grabbing the rubber at his own blue line, the wiry wingman skated down the boards, eluded Indian Irv Sherwood, and, although booked from behind, managed to poke the disk through goalie Dick McMahon's legs, ending up in the goal himself, on top of McMahon and the puck...

Author: By Hiller B. Zobel, | Title: Six Raps Indians By 5-1, Picks Up First League Win | 2/14/1952 | See Source »

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