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...perhaps 20 years from now, there will be a real World Series instead of the one between The Bronx and The Bronx (as was the case last year), TIME will have been one of the first to see it coming...
...Asphalt and Desire" has all the elements of an excellent novel of frustration and bewilderment. The heroine, Iris Leavis, an off-spring of the Bronx Levins and a newly-hatched graduate of Hunter College, is certainly complicated enough for a modern heroine. And her situation abounds in conventional and unconventional value-systems which she can reject with a minimum of hesitation and a maximum of insecurity...
...doubly great pity that Mr. Morton chose the "I" technique, since his forte is description of other people. When he steps out of Iris for a moment to watch the goings-on in her West Bronx apartment, he introduces a menagerie of characters who are far more interesting and believable than his heroine. The straight description of her amazing Cornell sophomore brother is much more effective, for instance, than Iris' impressions of one of here amours: "And he still looked at me with all his immense naive vibrating thereness, and all my insides goose-pimpled as at something strange, impossible...
...beast, originally from the Belgian Congo, gained considerable notoriety last June when he fell in a moat at his Bronx Zoo home and promptly drowned. After rescue efforts of his keeper failed to revive him, Makoko was put on ice and Dr. Erikson was hastily summoned...
...players over 16. Crowds of more than 3,000 at a game are nothing unusual. Though the Dutch are careful to follow all the American rules, the game is strictly amateur and considerably more gentlemanly than the sometimes rowdy U.S. variety. The Dutch have no equivalent for the Bronx cheer; no one ever boos; no one would dream of suggesting that the umpire be killed. No player ever tries to steal signals, for the simple reason that few players are skillful enough to bunt strategically or to drop a hit behind the runner...