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...first twenty-three times around, Tobacco Road, based on a novel by Erskine Caldwell, concerns a poor-white Georgia dirt farmer named Jeeter Lester who tries to dig up $100 so he can keep his depression-haunted homestead out of the clutches of the bank. Not a man of boundless energy, Jeeter's attempts to secure the money, which include the theft of his son's car, turn out to be more or less unsuccessful, though at the end he does manage to stay on at his farm for a while...
Author Rowse finds it hard to understand why satirists such as Swift and Pope fired some of their nastiest arrows at the glittering Marlboroughs. He bridles at the refusal of most Britons (which persists to this day) to regard the mighty pair with proper awe and admiration. To have boundless ambition, to become fabulous millionaires, to seize the power behind the throne coldly and calculatingly-these, as Rowse sees them, are not only natural characteristics in great men and women, but a small price to pay for national greatness and security. Be that as it may, the Marlboroughs...
...such letters, for they are a part of Peking's intensive campaign to woo the refugees back. Invariably they come from the students' families, who may not have written for years. They seldom dwell upon domestic trivialities, but upon the glories of the "New China" and the boundless opportunities to be found there. But the most frightening thing about them is not what they say; it is the fact that they are proof that Peking has discovered who and where the refugees are, and is pressuring relatives to bring about their return...
...Education. Another student who went back to Red China detested what he saw there and escaped to Hong Kong, described the agony in store for any who succumb to Peking's blandishments. "The luxurious American President liner carried home our group of youths full of beautiful dreams and boundless enthusiasm," he wrote. "We sang lustily, 'Arise, those who don't want to be slaves.' " But the lusty group was soon told: "Don't consider yourselves returned students who have drunk foreign waters and therefore are special intellectuals . . . You must realize you underwent a longterm, poisonous...
...came to Madison Square Garden in tough trim-sleepy-eyed Floyd Patterson, at 21 about the most exciting young fighter in the game, and wild-eyed Tommy Jackson, 24, a fistic freak whose boundless energy and impervious head have thwarted most of the best men in the heavyweight division. To prove he was ready for man's estate, young Patterson needed to knock the ears off Jackson...