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Running Scared. At first glance the odds seemed all in favor of Mo Udall. Both he and Stew are popular personally, and the Udall family is a sort of Arizona institution. The brothers' grandfather arrived in a covered wagon, became patriarch of a clan that spread throughout the state. The brothers' father grew up to become the state's chief justice. As a boy, Mo Udall had his right eye blinded in an accident with a knife but went on to win local fame as a star, 6-ft. 5 in. basketball forward at the University...
...Spectator-Sportsman James D. Norris (deposed front man for the hoodlum-hampered International Boxing Club), is co-owner of the Black Hawks, while another son, Bruce, and Daughter Marguerite are co-owners of the Red Wings. In the new, wide-open competition of professional hockey, the Norris clan has inherited a rewarding family responsibility...
Lukewarm Linguistics. Mme. Vienot, the proprietress of the chateau, belongs to an aristocratic clan that has seen richer days, though the Rhodeses do not immediately know that. Their room is pleasant, though not quite as advertised-there is no hot water, and when Barbara complains, a maid appears at odd hours with lukewarm basins. The Rhodeses find the countryside charming, but the people seem unaccountably chilly. Mme. Vienot is brisk, cheerless and not above padding a bill. Her aged mother sits through most of dinner in a glazed reverie. A millionaire guest tells the Rhodeses how much he enjoyed eating...
...Kennedy clan...
Some of the author's ideas are first-rate. A blackmailer shows up, for instance, with the information that the matriarch of the clan, who is very lineage-conscious, did indeed have an ancestor who sailed on the Mayflower-but who jumped ship at Plymouth, England, because the weather was unpleasant. And there is a married couple who feud by doing each other's chores-she shines his shoes, and in riposte he Duzzes her undies. Invention of this sort is too much trouble, however, and for the most part the author amuses himself with the same...