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Both novels are about George Webber, a bulky, simian creature with knee-length dangling arms and a Webster-length vocabulary. In The Web and the Rock, George left his home town, Libya Hill, Old Catawba (North Carolina), to become a famous writer in Manhattan. Much of The Web and the Rock was taken up with the fits & starts and impassioned prose of a love affair between would-be Writer George and wealthy, married, Jewish Scene Designer Esther Jack. When love threatened to supersede writing, George fled to Europe. You Can't Go Home Again resumes this unsatisfactory affair after...
...horrible example was Continental Securities, acquired in 1937 by a gang of speculators, most of them now behind the bars, for whose skulduggery Continental's bankruptcy trustee is asking $3,300,000. Stephen Paine, of Wall Street's reputable Paine, Webber & Co., lent the sharpers $580,000 to buy the voting stock of Continental, grab control of Continental's $3,371,000 portfolio. This they liquidated, replaced good stocks with securities of paper investment companies...
Lutz and Legg will probably start at the forwards tonight with White at center. But Finegan and Ed Buckley will open at the guard posts but it is certain that Ed Buckley as well as Bill Webber, Franny Simpson, and Ed Rothschild will see plenty of action...
...Crimson lineup is tentatively composed of Lutz, and Bill Webber at forwards Sam White and Bud Finegan sharing the guard duties...
...whole the entire team played creditable ball throughout the game although there were no exceptionally bright individual stars. Ed Buckley and Bill Webber put on a show of long range shooting in the second half to rival Cobb and Ingley and garnered 10 and 8 points to lead the quintet...