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Among the non-partisans who talked were William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Natural Religion, and Benjamin F. Wright, associate professor of Government. Hocking and Wright advocated a peace based on security and political equivalence for both Germany and Great Britain and a new, more just world economy...
This week Edison Marshall, a ranking adventure serialist, moves into the field of the legitimate novel and gets the Literary Guild's accolade for March. Benjamin Blake has everything a best-seller needs: an alliterative title, a fat part for Tyrone Power when it reaches the films, and the ingredients of what critics like to call a rattling good yarn. It is set in the 18th Century, sauced with its political restiveness, and skillfully served up in a fake-archaic, first-person prose that has fibre enough to support a novel twice as serious...
Chief humiliator is Uncle Arthur Blake, Squire of Breetholm Manor, who takes his elder brother's by-blow into service, spends a futile year trying to break his spirit. Benjamin beats him to a pulp, boards a Boston ship, is marooned for seven years on a South Pacific paradise...
...picked up pearls which, in London, net him all the King's Pardoning he needs, and thousands of pounds sterling into the bargain. The ending is technically happy but, like the treatment throughout, perceptibly tougher and more intelligent than such stories generally bother to be. Indeed Benjamin Blake turns out to be not merely an engaging adventure piece but an articulate tract against feudalism, both sexual and social...
...Gottlieb Gerald D. Roscoe Lester G. Hawkins, Jr. Roger S. Schafer George G. Haydock John P. Schwede David D. Henry G. Robert Stange Henry Hornblower, II Charles H. Stern John M. London Lonsdale F. Stowell Joseph P. Lyford Philip Thayer Class Day Committee Douglas L. Anderson Richard S. Hartwell Benjamin A. Barnes George H. Hanford W. Russell Bowie, Jr. David O. Ives John F. Brooks Robert A. James John W. Darr William F. Ketchum Sheldon Dictz Harry K. Mansfield Henry Doerr, III Leo Marx Donald A. Donahue William D. McSweeney Richard D. Edwards Robert B. Nichols Nelson R. Gidding Elliot...