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CLUTCH AND DIFFERENTIAL - George Weller-Random House...
...made a bold attempt to correct this omission with an extraordinary, 415-page work of fiction in which the automobile, with its moving parts, time payments and advantages as a theatre for youthful lovemaking, served as the central figure. Not exactly a novel, Clutch and Differential is by George Weller, whose first book, Not to Eat, Not for Love, published three years ago, was a witty college story laid in his alma mater, Harvard. The elusive theme of his new work is taken from an automobile sales circular: "Bodies never cease changing . . . but power in motor vehicles is still infused...
...little monolog about waiting for the delivery of a new automobile. The "differential" story of another young couple (Would You Marry A College Man? No.) begins with factory instructions on breaking in a new car, a theme whose smutty possibilities are as obvious as they are outworn. Some times Weller grinds his gears pretty badly in shifting from one tale to the next; sometimes the transitions are lightly made...
Last week one of Dr. Warthin's associates, Professor Carl Vernon Weller, and one of his young graduates, Dr. Isador Jerome Hauser, published a third analysis of the G family which, now in its sixth Michigan generation, numbers 305 living and dead. In the American Journal of Cancer Drs. Hauser and Weller note that all members of this family have good reason to fear being stricken by the age of 25. Of the 174 living and dead who reached that age, 41 (23.6%) developed cancers of one sort or another. One noteworthy fact about this ill-fated family...
...younger generations of the other lines the affliction seems to be lessening its burden. But Drs. Hauser and Weller grimly warn: "This may be more apparent than real. Not until the full effect of age becomes known in the third and fourth generations can this be known...