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...PRICE IS RIGHT (316 pp.)-Jerome Weidman-Harcourf, Brace...
Nobody can roast tiger (two-legged, money-hungry variety) with the searing yellow flame that Jerome Weidman uses. In his first novel, I Can Get It For You Wholesale, and a sequel, Weidman barbecued some of the pin-striped denizens of Manhattan's garment district. In his latest (and sixth) novel, the tiger wears tweeds and its hunting grounds are the knotty-pine fastnesses of a Madison Avenue newspaper syndicate; but when the price is right, the beast still shows its breed...
...story of how Henry went after everything and got nothing wears such a high polish that readers may scarcely realize it is essentially an old shoe: the same kind of satiric article Frederic Wakeman tried to fit on the advertising business in The Hucksters. Weidman's is the better fit. His boardroom oratory and office memoranda strike the ear with just the right sound of bursting fruit, and he can nail his types with the deftness of a bartender spearing a cherry with a toothpick. Says one of his newspaper executives, nodding toward his wife and suggesting another round...
Less than a year after she started dancing, Pearl Primus won a New Dance Group scholarship, later studied with Doris Humphrey and Charles Weidman (TIME, July 28), who called her "my little primitive," and West Indian Dancer Belle Rosette, who taught her how to freeze her mobile features and saucer-white eyes into demoniac, war-mask grimaces...
Many of the tales are set in Washington, where the author spent part of the war in the OWI. They gleam with tarnished Army brass, crawl with Army wives as loose as granny knots. The Captain's Tiger will add little to Weidman's reputation, shows that even tough-guy fiction can be written to a formula as predictable as slick-paper romance...