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NICODEMUS - Dorothy Walworth -Houghton Mifflin...
...literary virtues than in its theme: the search for a valid religious faith by four despairing New Yorkers. They might be taken, together, as representing the common man. None of them had thought much about religion until World War II. Their contemporary torment is bluntly portrayed by Novelist Walworth with the forcefulness of the common woman...
After some nine symbolical months of doubt and travail, all of Author Walworth's characters dramatically bring forth faith in God. The Reverend Job's faith returns when he goes back to work in the slums. Actor Nick Romney finds faith by repulsing Melita's fleshly charms and acting his clergyman's role to perfection. Laura is saved when Henry is struck down by a terrible sickness. Gladys learns the meaning of religion when she goes to Christmas service and "sees" her dead fiancé there, in battle dress...
...Author. Nicodemus is Author Walworth's fourth novel (the others: Faith of Our Fathers; They Thought They Could Buy It; Feast of Reason). Daughter of a Methodist minister, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Merle Crowell, Novelist Walworth lives in a remodeled farmhouse in Chappaqua, N.Y. Says her friend, Writer Grace Perkins, wife of Reader's Digest Editor Fulton Oursler: "She's small, she's trig, and if she isn't younger than her married daughter, her heart doesn't know it. Her spiritual essence is a faith that permeates everything she does...
...Republican Party in Pennsylvania; long-nosed Lammot du Pont, beardless patriarch of the U. S.'s most famed family industry; Du Pont-in-law Donaldson Brown, vice chairman, financial and labor policy man of General Motors; the retiring president of N. A. M., courtly Howard Coonley of Walworth Co., whose valve business has not been doing so well in spite of recovery; barrel-chested Utilitarian Wendell Lewis Willkie, foe of TVA; President Clarence Francis, able little-publicized business pundit, and Chairman Colby Mitchell Chester, of General Foods; heavy-jowled Samuel Clay Williams, chairman of Reynolds Tobacco; Wisconsin...