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RIVER ROGUE - Brainard Cheney -Houghton Mifflin...
...decades the tough, subtle, sub-sinister landscape of the South has been a notable breeding and hunting ground for new writers. The hunting is still good. Neither Robert Richards, with a first novel, nor Brainard Cheney, with his second, is as imposing as Thomas Wolfe or William Faulkner. But both are exciting...
...friend and banker, Julian Gerard; but the judge doubted any gold would be found, and did not award Gerard any interest in his protégé's three-million-dollar desert castle. >> Historian Harry Elmer Barnes was dropped as a lecturer by Eastern Washington College of Education (Cheney, Wash.) because "during his early years Dr. Barnes was associated with certain movements commonly called radical." >> Alabama's Governor Frank Dixon and wife got out and thumbed a while when their car broke down in.the country; hitchhiked 20 miles on a truck. >> Katharine Cornell, member of Actors Equity...
...Roche Edith M. Grace, State Teachers' College, Bridgewater Walter F. Rogers, Jr. Bette Towers, Vassar Thomas A. Rogstad Suzanne Harsh, Wells College, N. Y. Donald Ross Nancy Kjellberg, Radcliffe Bertram S. Roth Mary Martin, Radcliffe Armand P. Ruderman Sybil Pilshaw, State Normal School, Bridgewater Archibald L. Ruprecht Grace Cheney, Concord Fritz M. Sarbi Eva Aninger, Smith Robert C. C. St. George, Jr. Margot Black, Winsor Peter B. Saltonstall Edith Winsor, Weston Richard C. Sanborn Peggy Blumer, Wellesley Allen D. Sapp, Jr. Elsie L. Jones, The Baldwin School Compton Sargent Cynthia Sargent, Beaver Country Day Edward L. Sawyer Mary L. Larson...
...nearly 400 pages about these embattled primitives, Author Cheney never once skids into histrionics, bitterness or those tones of romantic compassion which mar the larger talent of Steinbeck. He presents these types of inarticulate and stony heroism not as sentimental literary properties but as if they had a dignified, unobstreperous standing in human existence. With a constant and expert attentiveness to exactitudes of speech, gesture, action, he writes of violence (a negress cutting a white man's throat), horror (a father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality...