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...Length. Hank Stamper is a McMurphy who stops rambling and gambling and comes home, with a pretty wife jouncing on the back of his Harley-Davidson, to boss his father's logging operation in Oregon. He had been a phenomenal high school athlete, strong enough to hold a double-bitted ax at arm's length for 8 min. 36 sec.; at 36 he is still able to bare-knuckle the swagger out of the biggest lumberjack in the Northwest...
...Stamper's strength is as the strength of one, and naturally none of the self-divided souls around him can tolerate so much indivisible virtue. The towns people are feuding with him because he won't join a logging strike (this may be the only novel about workingmen in which the strikers are villains), and his bookish young half brother, Lee, is trying to break...
Will the weight of envious mediocrities and malevolent mischance bring Stamper down, or will he be able to float his log booms down the river in time to meet his contract? The question sounds like rank melodrama, but it is not; Author Kesey's novel is big and clumsy, but its questions matter very much...
...whose U.S. Army sergeant husband is now in Mannheim, Germany, said of their two sons, 14 and 12: "A mother can't handle it alone. They need love that I alone cannot give them. They are interested in football and scouting. I cannot satisfy them." Said Captain James Stamper, a paratrooper now in Italy: "The bad thing is not how my wife or I feel about it, but how it will affect our three children...
Brown has a predominantly sophomore team with an excellent goalie, mediocre backs, and a below-par line. John Master, the Bruin goalie, is supposed to be the finest sophomore prospect Brown has come up with in many years. Dick Press and Bill Stamper are the fullbacks, but behind them there is no one to fill in. Captain Dick Ramsden will head a halfback line along with Sal Rena and Foster Ballard, while Arnie Hetzer, Howard Whitcomb, Bill Vandentorn, Bill Pearson, and Al Tapper make up the forward line...