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...WEIDMAN...
...Peter, the 15-year-old American nephew who accompanied her, was bewildered by her brusque, preoccupied behavior, soon found there was a man in the story, and learned enough of life to leave adolescence behind him forever. Touching as a study of a growing youth, Lights is Author Weidman's first major break away from the tough, garment-district world of I Can Get It For You Wholesale, What's In It For Me? etc. It lacks the sure, knowledgeable control of those works...
...with some of the other service schools shows that the following men have received two votes apiece: Guince, Harkins, Maiman, Massopust, Raiter, and Seaberg. Those who have received one vote are: Chidester, Donohue, Grant, Haight, Hallan, Hammond, Lenox, McDermott, Moore, Morrison, Nee, Replogle, Reilly, Schur, Smith, G. S., Turtie, Weidman, and Ziegler...
Married. Jerome Weidman, 29, novelist (I Can Get It for You Wholesale), short story writer (The Horse That Could Whistle "Dixie"), OWI pamphleteer; and Peggy Wright, 29, New York newspaperwoman; in Manhattan...
...stories? They are ominous, crucl, sad--the sinister adjectives accumulate, perhaps because they are already in the mind. Leonard Ross' Hyman Kaplan story is humorous, of course, and so are the Arthur Kober and Donald Moffat and Richard Lockridge stories. But far more typical are the bitter Jerome Weidman pieces, Irwin Shaw's savage "Sailor off the Bremen" and the incredibly sinister "Wet Saturday" of John Collier. One explanation--perhaps minor, but none the less interesting--suggests itself: the collection represents fifteen and a half years, in that some of the stories actually go back to 1925; but the bulk...