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BLIND MAN'S YEAR-Warwick Deeping -Knopf...
...would not be recognized by a chemist, it is well known to some popular writers. And there is nothing so pleasing to some tastes as a good mouthful of treacle. Gene Stratton Porter was an expert at this mixture; so is A. S. M. Hutchinson. In Sorrel and Son Warwick Deeping had the formula just about right, but last week his latest novel showed that even specialists in sad-gladness cannot always hit the proper ratio, that too many sobs spoil the ink. Only a nursery word like ooky-gooky or perhaps icky-poo could justly describe Blind...
...When Warwick Deeping is writing in his own person, he likes to use much stiff-legged literarities as "flavicomous, ecology, otiose," speaks of people "occluding" the doorway. But his wistful better nature comes to the fore in his characters' speeches, which are always from the heart. Says Rosamund: "One has such a horror of being either priggish or sentimental. They call me sentimental in my books, but I'm not really." Says Clive: "Me! Oh, I'm just a rather affectionate sort of ass." Author Deeping can be alarmingly severe with people he doesn't like...
...Huntley '37, Spencer D. Howe '37, Malcolm S. Watts '37, A. Harmon Hall '38, Lawrence J. Arnold '38, Albert E. Brunelli '38, Joseph Franklin '38, Richard G. Labovitz '38, Frederick S. Armstrong '39, Edward C. K. Read '40, and Warwick B. Stabler...
With checked results in from Yale by mail, four of the Crimson shooters, Malcolm S. Watts '37, 260 point high scorer, Warwick B. Stabler '40, Richard G. Labovitz '38, and Albert E. Brunelli '38, totaled above the highest opponent...