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WELCOME TO THEBES (372 pp.)-Glendon Swarthout-Random House...
...best schools usually follow. Such might have been the future for Kansas City's venerable Central High School. Founded in 1887, it was long the city's top all-white school, usually sent half its graduates to college, boasted among its alumni Actor William Powell, Singer Gladys Swarthout, and even baseball's redoubtable Casey Stengel. But after World War II, Central's once prosperous white neighborhood rapidly turned black. When Central integrated in 1955, racial tension reached such a pitch that police cars haunted the premises. One sergeant predicted "a lot worse situation here than they...
...Where the Boys Are, Swarthout...
Where .the .Boys .Are, by Glendon Swarthout. The annual spring invasion of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. by beer-fueled collegians becomes, in this humorous novel, a comedy of Eros...
...GLENDON SWARTHOUT Scottsdale, Ariz...