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...offered an unusual treat: an adventure story that was not only dramatic but made good sense. Author B. Traven's tale even had the kind of moral that Hollywood likes-"The glittering treasure you are hunting for day & night lies buried on the other side of that hill yonder"-even if its ending was too ruthlessly realistic for Hollywood's taste. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre is a story of prospecting for gold; it differs from other treasure-seeking tales chiefly in its air of authenticity, its soberly factual setting...
...Harvard's demi-monde with its forgetting. High school heroes and prep school might-have-beens assure each other of what they might be doing now. Beacon Hill-climbers rub their barked shins unseen and unmolested. Literary figures of other days talk stridently of what they could be writing. Yonder the Great Lover is educating Radcliffe, while a nearby group of almost-clubmen watch him with scornful interest. Frustration wanders quietly from booth to booth, barely perceptible through the fumes of smoke and noise and liquor...
Whoooooo bellowed the steamboat whistles. "Hey, look!" yelled the crowd. "Looka yonder! Hyeh they come!" The big barge nosed across the yellow water toward the brown river bank at the edge of Jefferson Davis Park. "Great Lawd, look at the Niggers on those cotton bales." guffawed the crowd. "Naked as jay-birds. What they supposed to be, Egyptian slaves or something? It says here in the program: 'Egyptian Pageant, Memphis on the Nile in the Time of Menes, First Prince of Memphis...
...vastness of the ocean tract, the force of the one vessel on the conduct of the other, caused the Vagabond to muse further on the underlying principles of the occurrence. What rules to govern the vessels of the seven seas? How determine the rights of yonder tramp steamer standing out to the Shoals? The bookcase resumed its original form again to answer these questions, and the Vagabond stared on, until from a maze of crimson jackets and calfskin bindings the words came out--Mare Liberum, Grotius...
Biographer Ida Minerva Tarbell's concern with business ethics dates from way back yonder, when oil was discovered in her native Pennsylvania hills. Her family cleared out of the way of the oil tycoons' sent Ida to Allegheny College. She worked with Chautauqua for eight years, then went off to Paris to study French methods of writing biography. Her work attracted Editor Samuel Sidney McClure then starting McClure's Magazine. Biographer Tarbell's Life of Abraham Lincoln, serialized, brought 150,000 subscribers to the magazine. Her History of the Standard Oil Co., also serialized, reverberated from...