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Boston, which normally suffers from a surfeit of mediocre daily newspapers, was suffering from an even worse complaint: no newspapers at all for the past three weeks. All six city dailies* had been struck by the mailers, the essential musclemen who get the papers from the press to the delivery truck. Though they are affiliated with the tough, conservative International Typographical Union, the Boston mailers struck independently for higher wages, hoping to build up their bargaining position against the day next year when the Boston Globe moves into a new plant where automation will cut down the number of mailers...
Opening a collection of short stories by a new writer is often like dipping into a sample box of chocolates : the unwary are apt to be brought down by a surfeit of soft centers or too many brandied cherries. In this book there is no such hazard. Its eleven stories are all rock-hard and novel in flavor...
...credit to the excellent acting of the principals that the film can almost make one believe for a moment that being the son of a whore is enough dramatic justification for a berserk attempt to envelop all that evil has to offer. After a while the surfeit of violence and shock destroy even the dramatic incipient in them and become almost humorous...
...would probably be unkind to suggest that either the audience at the Yale festival, which for the most part seemed to enjoy all the productions, or those people who selected the plays to be produced were suffering from such a form of confusion. But after three days the surfeit of obscurity did have a somewhat soporific ecect...
Eight years later. Maggie has a daughter and a surfeit of Dexter. Then she meets Ray Masters, a Manhattan adman turned novelist, whose "brown eyes, with their heavy lashes, looked almost boldly into Maggie's.'' Dexter takes the bad news like a true son of John Harvard, and, with her second husband. Maggie at last moves into the New York-Hollywood glamour spheres she always dreamed about. But Ray's reedlike pliancy proves as irritating as Dexter's rocklike immobility. The only way to achieve success, Maggie sees...