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...nearing 70, Author Sinclair can still reel off his special Lanny-brand of history and hokum at comic-strip clip. "All I have to do is turn the spigot," he once explained, "and the water flows." And, though critics and historians may not like him, Lanny has a public. In Europe-and in Russia (where Sinclair is considered a major U.S. literary figure, along with William Faulkner and Erskine Caldwell) the Lanny Budd volumes are becoming almost as well known as Author Sinclair's The Jungle or The Brass Check. Several of the Lanny series have already been published...
...hair. Berenice is waiting for the perfect spiritual as well as physical love-though willing to take on a casual lover to help the time pass. To offset Aurélien's tedious lack of success with Berenice, Aragon keeps several other affairs going at a gamy clip in & out of bedrooms. No coincidence is too blatant, no cliche worn too smooth: ("How's Martha? I wasn't going to ask you. Ah, poor darling, marriage is one thing and love's another...
...start of the race Yale went out in front; rowing at a terrific clip above 40. It had a half mile lead after the first quarter mile . . ." --The New York Times...
...York, officials at the International Beauty Show figured that the U.S. woman's face depreciates at an $85-a-year clip, reasoned that she should be able to deduct facial repair costs from her income...
...produced by George Abbott) is another of those youthful musical frolics (Too Many Girls, Best Foot Forward) for which Producer Abbott has become famous-and a little fatiguing. This one's locale is the University of Minnesota, and its line-up includes a fraternity run like a clip joint, a lummox of a football star, a pinhead of a society student, a sourball of a professor, a strident campus Communist, and a freshman hero (Billy Redfield) who is mauled by coeds and made president of the Student Council...