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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mass exploitation of the Wister formula that soon turned the western story into a beltline business. Only since World War II have the cliches been rescued by a serious set of younger writers-A. B. Guthrie Jr. (The Way West), Tom Lea (The Wonderful Country), Dorothy Johnson (The Hanging Tree...
Natural Synthetic Rubber. U.S. Rubber Co. and Shell Chemical Corp. jointly began commercial production of polyisoprene, a man-made rubber duplicating tree-grown rubber. Intended for duty in large-size tires where ordinary synthetic rubber breaks down, the new rubber also will be used in white sidewall tires, crepe-rubber shoe soles and surgical gloves...
...Hanging Tree. A "psychological" horse opera suggesting that the American West was won on the couches of Vienna. But even as a frontier Freud, Gary Cooper remains Gary Cooper...
...apartment on Sparks St. is not arty, just a little crowded. Books and records are stacked around the room and on the mantelpiece stands bric-a-brac suggestive of his work: a rubber "dead hand" (I Hold Your Hand in Mine), a skeleton, a model of the "World Tree" in which he has stuck a dustmop, and a flowery piece of crockery labeled "Opium" (The Old Dope Peddler). He has a much pleasanter voice than his record would suggest...
...Sleep of Baby Filbertson, by James Leo Herlihy. Into this skillfully woven basket of short stories, the author tenderly places seven "twisted apples"-the maimed, the infantile, the impotent-that have fallen from the tree of life...