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BLOOD FOR A STRANGER-Randall Jarrell-Harcourt, Brace...
...tennis-playing English teacher at the University of Texas, now in the Army Air Forces, writes like a spoiled darling. But, though Jarrell has suffered neither social nor economic disabilities, he makes a moving protest against the world of his time. Some of the lyrics in Blood for a Stranger register the pain of human guilt as it has seldom been registered in American poetry. He writes...
Give 'Em an Inch. . . . In Denver, Mrs. J. L. Mathews let a stranger use her telephone, after he had gone found no nickel, no telephone...
...Kansas City, day before the story was to be made public, reporters heard bartenders, waiters whisper: "The President's in Africa, you know." In San Francisco one newsman was told of the President's trip by a stranger on a trolley. A Detroit reporter was flabbergasted when a courthouse official spouted: "Yeah, I know all about it. Roosevelt and Churchill conferred in North Africa." In Wilkes-Barre, Pa. striking anthracite miners declined for a while to obey a Presidential request that they return to work because "it's a phony; the President's not in Washington...
...eyes light up behind his pince-nez when he shakes a stranger's hand. But his shyness is so painful that he can never relax. Only a few men like Franklin Roosevelt have known the human warmth that lies behind Morgenthau's deaconish mien. Most others have decided, after a time, that he is suspicious, autocratic, a real cold fish...