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...Yale are the same. Fundamental are the campus credos, "that a fraternity may be childish, but a Senior Society or an Eating Club is sacred . . . that whoever interests himself in progressivism or radicalism probably hasn't bathed for weeks, that a Phi Beta Kappa winner is either a major trickster or a greasy grind, and no compromise about it; that a prof under forty-five is a fellow who couldn't make a business success in the boom era, while a prof over forty-five is a harmless oracle . . .", et cetera. But to these axioms if Mr. Hale will...
...trickster who instantly changes costume a dozen times, plays a collapsible fiddle and an expanding guitar, withdraws at least 150 fake bananas from his capacious pockets...
...Pearson is a trickster...
HELL! SAID THE DUCHESS-Michael Arlen-Doubleday, Doran ($2). A trickster in a tricky trade. Author Dikran Kouyoumdjian (Michael Arlen) has altered the cut of his books at fashion's wink. Ladies in green hats are long passées, but duchesses are never out of style. Hell! Said the Duchess is nicely calculated to tickle the fancy of detective-story addicts, of tycoons tired of trilogies, of all persons except young children who are for the moment sick of being serious...
...matter what the deductions. In one detail, however, the author's cocky memory tricked him. He refers to "a legend that a Mr. Astor, a cattle merchant, fed his stock great quantities of water just before he drove them to market. . . . His 'watered stock' made him rich." The trickster was the late unctuous, sniveling Daniel Drew, the cattle-watering one of the simplest and earliest of his many business rogueries...