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THEY CAME TO CORDURA (213 pp.) -Glendon Swarthout-Random House...
...thorny as a Chihuahua cactus until, with the last shreds of his officer's prestige. Thorn flogs the men and the woman toward Cordura. By the time the wanderers, addled by the sun and gut-racked by the alkaline water, reach the hideous end of their journey, Novelist Swarthout has sketched a powerful case against the military. Some of the characters, including the woman prisoner and a fugitive criminal, have a prefabricated, Hollywood patness. But Novelist Swarthout writes in a workmanlike style that only occasionally recalls the toothless tigers of the men's magazines. He explores a dark...
...were plain wacky, e.g., "Parigi, o cara" ("Paris, my dear"), from Traviata, would show one lady demonstrating a strange new garment to another. "Caro name" ("Dear name"), from Rigoletto, would show a sugar daddy signing a fat check for his girl friend. Pressagent Williamson (whose clients have included Gladys Swarthout, Ezio Pinza, Helen Traubel) persuaded Austrian-born Artist Susan Perl to put her ideas on paper, found a California manufacturer to print the cartoons on a set of "sip 'n snack" paper napkins. Price: $1 for 36 napkins. Caro name of the series: Grand Uproar...
...high as 60 m.p.h. on the straightaways (record for the track: 11.8 sec.). Remarked one micro-midgeter: "When you're that close to the ground, 60 miles an hour is a hell of a lot faster than 120 in a standard-size car." Ward Swarthout's micro had a field day, beginning with two seconds and two firsts in the day's early events...
...smashed up on a turn, three others spun out, another broke a steering-column pin, climbed a bank and hit a fence; but as usual no one was hurt-in fact, in four years of micro racing, the most serious injury any driver has suffered is a broken elbow. Swarthout, who races "strictly for the laughs," since there is no prize money for micro addicts, buzzed home first in the main race. Afterward, the hat was passed, and the drivers collected $276.72 for the March of Dimes. Grinned Top-Winner Swarthout: "It was a real nice afternoon-for a grandfather...