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...astute reader will be aware that this is a book in which the preferred words are short, the shortest being "I." The principal "I" of the story is a lowbrow, high-income writer who becomes maddened by visions of the girl he left behind him after a farming stint in the Congo. The poor girl, Helen, had been a dance-hall hostess in England. She had foolishly married one Henry Seaman, who at school looked like a "nasty cupid," bullied small boys and dropped white mice down the fronts of girls' dresses. By the time he marries Helen, Henry...
Priority on Ingenuity. Appointed technical director of the reviving steel mill was Arthur Tix, 58, an engineer who had been with B.V. since 1922, had a two-year stint as a bricklayer after the war. Tix bought back some of the company's old equipment that had been dismantled and shipped out of the country. He built a modern rolling mill, increased the work force to 16,000, geared production up to 100,000 tons a month. Last year Tix developed a new vacuum process, which takes gaseous impurities out of cast steel, guaranteeing elimination of flaws, cutting production...
Early in the week he went before the cameras for his two-minute stint in a 27-minute Republican campaign movie (Peace, Progress and Prosperity-A Report to the People), which will be spotted on TV and at political rallies starting next month. Intermittently, he checked arrangements for the Republican National Convention; harking back to an impressive prayer he had heard in Harrisburg, Pa. during the 1952 campaign,* he personally selected the Rev. John B. Williams, mellifluous pastor of Harrisburg's big Negro Second Baptist Church, to deliver an invocation in San Francisco. Cheerfully he approved a tentative schedule...
...Ohio State's Howard L Bevis, 70, since 1940 the University's affable but hard-driving president. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati ('08) with a doctorate from Harvard Law School, Bevis served as state finance director under two Ohio governors, after a stint on the state Supreme Court and five years at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration arrived at Ohio State to usher in its era of greatest prosperity and controversy. He aroused student and faculty resentment by insisting that he screen all campus speakers, earned the censure of the American Association...
...older children know it. Daughter Katie has the instincts, if not the business acumen, of a prostitute−and a two-year-old illegitimate son to show for it. But it is Hank, a Neanderthal 18-year-old, around whom the family and its impending tragedy pivot. A stint in his father's boots as the family's wartime disciplinarian, plus the lure of easy money, has turned Hank into a small-time mobster. He wields a mean cosh in a gang that includes sister Katie and two of his brothers. On one night's prowl...