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...FREE AGENT (318 pp.)-Frederic Wakeman-Simon & Schuster...
...Bobbsey twins. The best and most enjoyable bad writing ever done by an American is Hemingway's in To Have and Have Not, but when some anthologist pastes together the definitive collection of Great Moments from Bad Novels, he should give a secondary dedication, at least, to Frederic Wakeman...
Haym Soloveitchik '58, of Dudley House and Roxbury, David J. Steinberg '59, of Leverett House and New York City, Robert B. Strassler '59, of Kirkland House and Westport, Ct., Frederic E. Wakeman Jr. '59, of Winthrop House and Cleveland Heights, Ohio, Theodore I. Wallace Jr. '59, of Dunster House and Elmhurst, III., John L. Warner '59, of Dudley House and Detroit, Mich., Andrew L. Warshaw '59, of Adams House and Jamaica, N.Y., Gordon H. Williams '59, of Kirkland House and Kansas City, Kan., Robert I. Willman '59, of Lowell House and Grand Island, Neb., and Theodore S. Zimmerman...
...when Novelist Frederic Wakeman sent Adman Victor Norman into the high-salary altitudes of The Hucksters, he let his man enjoy the big, bad money for a while, then shot him down in a barrage of hack-ack. But the new heroes do not come to bad ends. They are drumbeatniks who brood during a few drinks about the morality of what they are doing, then get over it. Author Stephens' hero, for instance, guiltily grows an ulcer after he rings in an infected blood sample in the yearly Wassermann test the agency requires his boss to take...
...prose fails to redeem things. There is only one decent piece of fiction--"Mademoiselle Champignon", By Frederick Wakeman, a Harvard junior. Wakeman is sandwiched between two long short stories, the first a pallid Hemingway without irony, called "The Leedhes." It begins with twenty-one simple sentences, stumbles along under a clock of belabored symbolism, and never quite gets on its feet again. C. C. Abt returns in the other effort to tell a long tale inadequately...