Word: zugsmith
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Dates: during 1934-1934
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...RECKONING-Leane Zugsmith- Smith & Haas ($2.50). As the Old Guard of U. S. novelists gradually dies or fades away without surrendering, new recruits are unostentatiously closing up gaps in the ranks. When the next dress parade is held, alert reviewers will see among the new faces that of Author Leane Zugsmith. Her fourth novel, The Reckoning, is a book of such competent maturity that it qualifies her automatically for a place in the second rank. In the regimental line her position is a little left of centre. Carolyn was a public-school teacher in a tough quarter of Manhattan. Intelligent...
...shot her by mistake. Oliver, his eye on forensic laurels, foolishly took the job of defending him. Oliver's smoothly resentful colleagues tricked him into a felony, wrecked his career, drove him out of town. Carolyn would have gone with him, but he ran away from her. Author Zugsmith's Manhattan, a city of slums, grimy schools, furtive assignations, venal officials, speakeasies, dingy hall bedrooms, cigar-stuffy offices and law courts, is not a pleasant metropolis but it is a long way from being a city of the dead. The speech of its inhabitants, broken, illiterate, suggestive, rings...
...Author. Leane Zugsmith is made up of opposites. Kentucky-born (1903), she has been a Manhattanite for nine years. Onetime publicity head for the late blatant Publisher Horace Liveright, she is herself far from blatant, shrinks from publicity. She is pretty but unmarried. In getting material for The Reckoning she investigated New York's Welfare Island (before the recent raid; TIME, Feb. 5). had a hard time seeing anything but the chapel...