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...Before You Go, Weidman...
BEFORE You Go (437 pp.)-Jerome Weidman-Random House...
...before the girl jumps out of a window, she manages to spread the impression that the villain was not her boss, but a footloose social worker named Benjamin Franklin Ivey. The preposterous melodrama that hinges on this case of mistaken paternity is remotely interesting only because perennially bestselling Author Weidman (I Can Get It for You Wholesale, The Enemy Camp) has fashioned Ben Ivey in the unmistakable outer image of Harry Hopkins, that famed, dark-grey eminence of the New Deal...
...fictional conjecture about What Made Harry Run, against the background of New Deal politics, could have been a highly interesting book, but Author Weidman does not even try to write it. Freely and rather irresponsibly, he tacks together the familiar Hopkins characteristics-his social work beginnings, his poor health and cadaverous looks, his rise to Olympus as Roosevelt's closest adviser. But these traits clothe a synthetic creature wholly unlike Hopkins in his private involvements and far duller than Harry in his political intrigues. Much, of the book is taken up with Ivey's having a mysterious...
Among 13 Pulitzer Prizes awarded in the arts, journalism and letters, a salute went to prolific Naval Historian Samuel Eliot Morison (his second Pulitzer) for his biography, John Paul Jones. The hit musicomedy Fiorello!, written by indefatigable (at 70) George Abbott with Jerome Weidman, was the third musical ever to win such an award (the others: Of Thee I Sing and South Pacific). Outstanding in the field of international reporting: the New York Times's A. M. (for Abraham Michael) Rosenthal, who was ordered to leave Poland for probing too deeply into its internal problems. One of the least...