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...Behind the Tables. In the hope of reaching out to their alienated charges, prison chaplains are tolerant of being used by cynics-convicts who show up for services to improve their chances for parole. The ministers try to avoid any sign of moral judgment. The Rev. George Tolson of San Quentin wears an old green eyeshade when he interviews inmates ("It reminds them of the man behind the tables at Reno") and tells them: "I'm not here with answers. I'm just here to share with you what you've been going through." Colorado...
...novelist loses control when Leonard falls under the influence of Victor Tolson, a muscular, mindless working-class homosexual who lives in the housing project that surrounds the Radcliffe mansion. Tolson lurks about the shrubbery like the hound of the Baskervilles, and sexual symbols parade through the paragraphs wearing sandwich signs. Superfluous minor characters become infected with the author's garrulity, deliver portentous sermons, and then drift off to irresolution. The dry prose becomes dewy. There are long, dare-taking sex scenes of the kind that, in he-she form, would seem overwritten in a Frank Yerby novel. Storey...
...bought a $25,000 house near fashionable Rock Creek Park. But Bachelor Hoover has never been seen escorting another woman to this day. His constant companion on occasional trips to the ballpark or for a weekend in Manhattan is the handsome, snap-brimmed FBI No. 2 man, Clyde Tolson...
Policeman Hoover has never been known to have had any woman-affair in New York City. A bachelor, he is seldom seen without a male companion, most frequently solemn-faced Clyde Tolson, his assistant. His reason: his dread that someone, some day, somewhere, will plant a naked woman in his path, try to frame...
...they are not real. The portrayal of the G-men in TIME rings truer than any, I am sure. I went to school with Hoover. We men who received C's called Hoover, who received A's, "fatty pants." In my class was a lad named Clyde Tolson [special agent in charge of the Washington bureau], Hoover's right-hand man, and if TIME or FORTUNE ever really gets behind the scenes you'll have to find even a better word than "able" for Clyde Tolson. . . . Incidentally Hoover is two exceptions. First, he is the only...