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...forty million men out of work made hoh-nobbing with other literary radicals on manicured Connecticut lawns grotesque sham. West's attention turned to the victims of the crisis and the calibrate fantasy worlds which mitigated their tragedies. The subject of his first novel. The Dream Life of Balso Snell, was West's own dreams. But the progress of his writing traces his broadened increst in peculiarly American myths and their frenetic residues...
...coming down the stretch, he shouted to himself: "You've won it! You've won it!" Doubell professes to care little for glory or gold medals-or even that his Olympic time of 1 min. 44.3 sec. equaled the world record of New Zealand's Peter Snell. "From the moment I touched the tape," he says, "it was all downhill, anticlimax, God Save the Queen and all that. Who needs national anthems...
...virtual unknown before the Olympics, Doubell, 25, has since proved that he is the finest runner to come out of the Antipodes since Snell and Fellow Aussie Ron Clarke. So far this season, he has won 14 out of 15 races, losing only the 600-yd. dash in the Los Angeles Times games. At that it took a virtual dead-heat world record performance (1 min. 8.7 sec.) by Martin McGrady and Lee Evans to defeat him. In the longer distances, Doubell has been unbeatable. In Albuquerque last month he ran 1,000 yds. in 2 min. 5.5 sec., shaving...
...napkin that dissolves in water and a camera that shoots 360° photographs. Ted Angelus, formerly of BBDO, has started New Products Action Team, Inc., and is searching for a buyer for his Instant Elephant breakfast-food kernels, which pop into animal shapes when milk is added. Foster D. Snell, Inc., which is under contract to several large food firms, is developing meatless ham made of vegetable protein, cholesterol-free eggs, and orange juice without citric acid. The firm also concocts scents for leather products and other goods. "The biggest lure after sight is smell," says Vice President Kurt...
THOMAS J. SNELL Philadelphia...