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...Points. Unlike Salinger's magic Holden Caulfield, Decker is inarticulate, and the internal musings of this gilded mooncalf are gruesomely awkward. When he behaves well, he thinks of himself as "making Brownie points humanwise." Others undertake to explain him to himself, like his college roommate. He is a Siwash Indian who is the first of his tribe to go to college, but he tells Wells: "You fascinate me, Wells. You are untouched. No diseases of the outside world have tinged you. You're part of an aboriginal race, maybe. I wonder if it has something to do with...
...reassembled all the familiar and unfamiliar characters of the Bonanza and El Dorado days, missing no nugget of color and adventure. A squaw man named George Washington ("Siwash George") Carmack staked the first big claim on Aug. 17, 1896, a day still celebrated in Yukon territory. There it was, "lying thick between the flaky slabs of rock like cheese in a sandwich." Charley Anderson bought a claim when drunk for $800, tried to get his money back when sober and could not. Out of it came $1,000,000 and his lifelong nickname, the Lucky Swede. Soon the world outside...
Sorter, however, found more serious opposition than siwash spirit when he collided with a construction machine and overturned his vehicle. The mishap resulted in lacerations of the left wrist for him and a broken nose for his date...
Undergrads, Upper Classes. In the readership polls Caniff seldom beats out Ham Fisher's hammy Joe Palooka or Chic Young's just-folksy Blondie. But his comparatively small (31 million) audience is, comparatively speaking, a class audience. It includes collegians (from Harvard to Siwash) and their professors, the Duke of Windsor, Margaret Truman, John Steinbeck†- and, significantly, hundreds of newspaper executives. Two years ago, when a score of syndicate salesmen began to spread the word of a new, as yet unnamed and undrawn comic by Caniff, they had nothing to sell but Caniff's name...
...Georgia Tech) as an understudy. Coach Bert LaBrucherie, who coached crack teams at Los Angeles High School for 16 years before he got his big chance with the Bruins last year, feels that ex-G.I.s will not swallow the old get-out-there-&-fight-for-dear-old-Siwash line. Instead, in the dressing room before each game he plays a short concert on a portable record player. First conies a sentimental ballad or two, then something a little solider, and finally, just before kick-off time-On, Wisconsin! Alter that, nothing needs to be said...