Word: zugsmith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Kentucky-born Leane Zugsmith's Summer Soldier is about Harlan County. She calls it Chew County. Seven slightly screwy liberals join a committee to investigate conditions in Chew. Five of them, riding down in a stuffy train, get a wire from their chairman, Hankemer, who> has gone ahead: Do not get off at Chew get off at Zara...
...Author Zugsmith's characters talk their share of balderdash. They pause in two dullish chapters to discuss martyrdom of left-wing professors and preachers. Nevertheless, their talk has the ring of an uncracked Liberty bell, rich with authentic undertones, strident with neurotic overtones. If Leane Zugsmith s novels have not been monuments, they have been milestones along the U. S. road. This novel, her sixth, indicates that she is still headed in the proper direction, uphill, going places...
...TIME TO REMEMBER-Leane Zugsmith-Random House...
...TIME TO REMEMBER-Leane Zugsmith-Random House ($2.00). Skillful novel about a strike in a department store, complete with clear portraits of cashiers, shoe-salesmen, harassed employers, unwilling informers, unromanticized union leaders, weakened by a too simple picture of the daily routine of a large store...
...understand the company is losing money because Borden products are not bought in union circles and thousands of bottles have been dropped a day," said Writer Leane Zugsmith...