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...Reno Odlin, president of the American Bankers Association, pointed out that last year's failures involved only 0.06% of the nation's banks, said that "banking is probably one of the most racketeer-free industries in the country." All very true -but that did not take the sting out of the daily headlines about banking scandals, and it is unlikely to lessen the embarrassment of the banking community as the weeks of investigation wear...
...dreary as it sounds, the reader may wonder why Harper & Row gave its 1965 Harper Prize to the book. Oddly enough, the award seems a good bet. Bryan is not a vivid writer, but-the character of Wilkinson aside-he is a sound one. His scenes do not sting, but the reader sees them clearly. Time after time in the novel, there is a feeling that if Wilkinson would only go home and soak his head, the party might still develop into something. Bryan's writing suggests the early work of Louis Auchincloss-competent, intelligent, flawed occasionally by pomposity...
...Beat the Devil" Bogart is but a shadow of his former self. He's still cool and cynical, but there's not as much sting in his sardonic comments, and the latent violence of the tough guy of old just doesn't seem to be there. Still, in all, it's a funny movie...
...Calif., makes a range of 3,000 products, including Ozalid dry printing machines and the film and camera with which the astronauts took color photographs of space. It also produces synthetic detergents and is the only U.S. company making high pressure acetylene derivatives that do everything from taking the sting out of iodine to the cloud out of beer...
...weariness and self-mockery) is his fourth large collection of short stories in four years. O'Hara's imagination is astonishingly agile, and his view of society and psychology is much broader than it is generally supposed to be. These stories, taken by themselves, have the sting of fresh work by a fine writer. But he has written so many stories that his fresh, vigorous writing is debased by an illusion of sameness. O'Hara sketches a middle-aged couple preparing for bed after a party, seeing each other, suddenly, with sour clarity. He has used such...