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Based on the late, great Western Novelist Zane Grey's last story, Western Union bears the sterling hallmark of sagebrush romance. When Outlaw Vance Shaw (Randolph Scott), riding hard to escape a sheriff's posse, stumbles on an injured man, against his better judgment he risks capture by helping the man in to the nearest stagecoach station, then rides off into the night. The man is Engineer Edward Creighton (Dean Jagger), surveying the country west of Omaha for Western Union's next push toward the Pacific...
...polloi's gain, for inside the binding is a fascinating tale, expertly handled by a young writer who shows himself to be a master of psychological study. In addition, Clark catches the true flavor of his setting. No drug-store cowboy, the author completely revolutionizes the Zane Grey tradition of the Western novel in which men are mangled and women wangled...
...LOREN ZANE GREY* Zane Grey Inc. Altadena, Calif...
...Novelist Zane Grey...
...last, the Faculty Council issued the following statement: "Commercial tutoring rests upon a false theory of education and its practices exert a harmful influence." It wasn't a very exciting statement; anyone used to reading Zane Grey or Shakespeare would have thought it pretty cold and colorless. But after allowances were made for the prose style of an official Harvard communication, and when the statement was placed in its proper historical setting, it began to assume tremendous significance...