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DANGLING MAN - Saul Bellow - Vanguard...
...psychotics were in the courtroom. As the Lonergan trial got under way-Novelist James Thomas Farrell (The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan, TIME, Feb. 19, 1934) was having trouble with the Manhattan police. His publisher (Vanguard Press) was visited by four different parties of cops who professed to see a connection between Wayne Lonergan and Studs Lonigan. Later a cop from a prowl car tried shyly to buy a copy of the novel from a First Avenue bookshop. It was out of stock...
Arms and the Purge. Frenchmen in Algiers pressed another case: the need of their comrades inside France for arms. The resistance movement in the homeland, they claimed, should be recognized as the vanguard of Allied invasion. In the ranks of 40,000 shock troops actively harrying the Germans, there was not more than one weapon for every 20 men. "The underground movement," said one resistance delegate, "is dying from exhaustion...
...DAYS OF ANSER - James T. Farrell -Vanguard...
Besides bringing with it all those autumnal beauties characteristic of New England, October brought to the Radar School the vanguard of a feminine invasion in the persons of Ensigns Quadland, Myers, Paulsen and Schwerin, W-V(S) USNR, or for those unfamiliar with Navy symbols--WAVES...