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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...want to join that union . . . Now, what happens? The union official carries out the threat and puts a picket line outside the plant, to drive away customers, to cut off deliveries. In short, to force the employees into a union they do not want. I want that sort of thing stopped. So does America...
...Maybe it was my fault. It ain't easy to raise a boy without a mother," sorrowfully explains the beef baron (Anthony Quinn), whose tosspot son (Earl Holliman). a sort of Leo Gorcey in chaps, has raped and murdered, just for pure meanness, the beautiful Indian "squaw missy" wife of the marshal (Kirk Douglas). The job of avenging his squaw's death is made much more complicated by the fact that Widower Douglas, "a poor fool with high-flown ideas," is also the best friend of Widower Quinn...
...rental-shelf "straight" novel in almost every department-plotting, characterization, background. They are novels of emotional conflict, in unusual settings, books that wrestle with the problems of frustration or greed or success. The traditional hole in the victim's head is often added as a sort of casual dividend. Seasonal items...
...INSPECTOR, by Helen Reilly (207 pp.; Random House; $2.95), the author's 32nd published novel, is peopled with stylish, upper-middle-class Manhattanites who yearn for just those few extra thousands a year. This sort of yearning leads to murder for profit. The romantic side of the plot, offering the heroine a wide choice of elegant men, documents the complexity of a woman's mind and heart. The case is wrapped up by Inspector McKee, nagged by his boss the commissioner, who, in turn, is nagged by political pressures. Expertly tooled and shined, soundly constructed...
SEEK THE FAIR LAND, by Walter Mack-en (308 pp.; Macmlllan; $3.95), is a sort of western, too. although it is set in iyth century Ireland. A minority of English settlers were struggling with a cantankerous but unorganized mass of natives whose language, religion, law and customs were totally different from their own. This lively historical novel deals with the mid-century years when Oliver Cromwell, having beheaded King Charles I. marched into Ireland with his vengeful army to put a quietus to the Irish question...