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AMOS THE WANDERER?W. B. Maxwell?Dodd, Mead ($2). How Amos, a village-lad, leaves home and father; well-told...
...Author-Rare for a first or 21st novel are Author Hutchinson's simple clarity, obvious sincerity, tenderness and understanding. Previous to this well-told tale of two gritty women he contributed to Oxford's his (he went to Oriel), the Manchester Guardian, Punch, the English Review. No missionary, he is 25, married, has a daughter, works in the advertising department of a London wholesale grocery...
...better formula is known for exploiting an autobiography than to provoke a squabble between the autobiographer and some other celebrity. Even the well-told story of so florid a subject as Anthony Herman Gerard ("Uncle Tony'') Fokker* would have created no great splash when it appeared last week had not the book contained some acid comments by Fokker about Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd, and had not an astute press-agent pre-advised newsmen of those comments. The book made headlines last week for the passages in a scant ten pages...
...robbing storage lofts. He rises to become an outstanding rumrunner and a journeyman of homicide until his bullet-spattered body is dumped in front of his mother's house. His more sentimental pal, Edward Woods, provides a milder development of the same theme. The Public Enemy is well-told and its intensity is relieved by scenes of the central characters slugging bartenders and slapping their women across the face. U. S. audiences, long trained by the Press to glorify thugs, last week laughed loudly at such comedy and sat spellbound through the serious parts. Unlike City Streets (TIME, April...
Most of these well-told tales are about flying in the War, most of the heroes come down in flames. The author knows what he is writing about: he was there. Some of the plots: A be-monocled ground officer, never seen in the air, restores the morale of his training unit, which has just lost five pilots in crashes, by a solo flight of extreme skill and daring...