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...conscious Americans cleaned out nearly a fifth of the stock during the first five hours of the University of Chicago Renaissance Society exhibit (its title: "Contemporary Art for Young Collectors"), bought $22,000 worth of art from the St. Louis City Art Museum. Manhattan's Galerie Felix Vercel summed up the nationwide trend by advertising a show of "Big Names in Small Sizes." The names were indeed big - Pissaro and Utrillo - and the pastels were indeed small; the prices were...
RIDE OUT THE STORM (470 pp.)-Roger Vercel-Putnam...
...Came Mutiny, The Sea Around Us and The Cruel Sea, following each other as successive bestsellers. Yet few present-day writers seem interested in following the old Conrad tradition which dealt with the "glorious and obscure toil" of seamen. Of those who do, France's Roger Vercel, author of Salvage, Troubled Waters and a 1938 Book-of-the-Month Club choice, Tides of Mont St.-Michel, is perhaps the best. In his latest novel. Ride Out the Storm, he again pits hard men against the pitiless sea and lets human nature take its willful course...
...sticks to the deck. Even when the first mate pleads with Rolland to land the sick woman, Rolland refuses. It takes him 20 days to round the Horn, and in that time he comes to know that he has gambled with his wife's life and lost. Author Vercel leaves him, as Conrad liked to leave his heroes of the sea, a sadder but a wiser...
...Novelist Vercel sometimes fails to make his characters credible, generally succeeds in capturing the dark, moody, half-Celtic atmosphere of the Brittany he knows so well...