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...past, in Williams' real life, starts with a genealogical treeful of romantics, adventurers and notables: Poet Sidney Lanier, some Tennessee Indian fighters, an early U.S. Senator, and, way back, a brother of St. Francis Xavier. More prosaically, his father was a salesman for International Shoe Co. "C.C." (for Cornelius Coffin) Williams was a gruff, aggressive man with a booming voice who was happiest, says Tennessee, "playing poker with men and drinking." His mother, Edwina Dakin Williams, was petite, vivacious, genteel and prim; she nourished rather illusory memories of a grand and gracious Southern past, of going to dances...
...Snows of Kilimanjaro is about an unhappy writer, dying of gangrene under a treeful of vultures while he thinks in flamboyant technicolor flashback thoughts about his misspent life and the stories he has failed to write. Hemingway used those flashbacks effectively to tell you a little about his writer: 20th Century Fox uses them only to sneak in one colossal scene after another. Thick and fast they come: Gregory Peck by the Seine, Gregory Peck and Ava Gardner at the bullfights and in the Spanish civil war, Gregory Peck and Hildegarde Neff splashing about the Riviera, Gregory Peck, friendly natives...
Fleet Streeters last week were chattering like a treeful of English sparrows over the supersuccess story of a bird they all knew when. Only eight months ago brash Frank Owen, back from the wars, had gone to work as a high-priced (around $40,000 a year), once-a-week columnist for Lord & Lady Rothermere's London Daily Mail. Now he had been named its editor...