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...this is a poor copy of the Andre Kostelanetz style of dance arranging which Kostelanetz has been doing for the last five years. It may be just coincidence that Shaw used to work in Kostelanetz's clarinet section. Only original note is the hot clarinet against a string background. But even this Shaw did three years ago with his first band (see "A Pretty Girl Is Like a Melody" for an example. Brunswick.), so that once again Mr. Shaw gets the scarlet covered roll of Scott's. The tunes are some Mexican ditties that weren't too sharp either before...
Superintendent of Floyd County schools today is Town Hall-a Caney Creek boy. Another is Knott County Attorney Dan Martin, whose hillbilly background has acquired a veneer that would make a Hatfield or a McCoy groan in his grave. He is a Harvard...
...London, his service as a trooper-surgeon for King Charles in the savage Civil Wars and his later life as a country physician are reconstructed in a sober, ringing prose that suggests the rich style of the 17th Century. Scholar Ashton's battles and amputations make a plausible background for Vaughan's fine devotional poetry...
CITIZENS -Meyer Levin - Viking ($2.75). This 650page hybrid-part fact, part fiction-tells the story of the South Chicago "riot" on Memorial Day 1937, in which police killed ten pickets at the Republic Steel mill. Mob-size, its cast includes nine dead pickets (who get individual background stories); a young Jewish doctor who rapidly develops from bystander to alarmed social critic; a welter of organizers, stool pigeons, scabs, Senators, professors, company executives, reporters, cops, lawyers. "By using only actual, attested events as materials," says Author Levin, "the writer reduces the possibility of arriving at false conclusions." Far less objective than...
Before writing the earlier novel, Lewis spent months in the company of Dr. Paul de Kruif (Microbe Hunters) learning to respect the selflessness of medical science, to see human weakness and social bigotry through the struggles of its dedicated professionals. Background for Lewis' new novel is the author's five-year experience with the professional theatre, first as a collaborator (Jayhawker and It Can't Happen Here), later as an actor-playwright (Angela Is Twenty-Two), member of Equity and player in the summer theatre and on the road. What Lewis has found to respect this time...