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...account by Guy Ciannaver '55 stated that "Rugo struggled...and the cop was joined by four others. During the course of the fight he was struck by clubs on the left cheek and skin...
Circuits of Exultation. For the next six weeks, White carried him tirelessly about house, barn and fields. He stood "smiling into space" while Gos tore at his ungloved hand and ripped his cheek. After days of inching progress, Gos accepted a 24-yd. creance (length of twine). White's next job was to teach Gos to fly to his shoulder. At first White cringed as Gos pounced, claws first. There was always the chance that the hawk would strike at his face. Five yards, two yards-soon White could stare at the hawk until he was only...
Progressive Tongue-in-cheek note on U.S. education, as given by Editor Kingsley Martin in London's New Statesman and Nation...
...mother touched the boy's cheek. "What made him do it? What made him do it?" she said in a low voice. The parents and the police followed the boy upstairs. In the surgery, a woman intern began a transfusion of blood and saline solution, slipped a tube through the boy's nose and into his stomach to sample its contents for telltale signs of blood...
...Erskine Caldwell, and the stories are at their best when Caldwell sticks to his happy flair for earthy comedy. The title piece, which deals with the courting customs of Southern Negroes, does this. So do two or three stories in which, for a change, Caldwell offers tongue-in-cheek reports on the cussedness of some Maine characters. Caldwell has less luck when he focuses on city people, and when he fumes with social indignation, the stories fall flat...