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Treatments & Trips. This year's most noticeable category in nonfiction is the literary biography, notably Andrew Turnbull's Thomas Wolfe and Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway (Papa is also the subject of Irwin Blacker's novel, Standing on a Drum). Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Lytton Strachey, Richard Wright, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nathanael West, André Gide and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also get full-length treatment; and there will be an autobiography from André Malraux, a second volume of Bertrand Russell memories, and a third of Harold Nicolson diaries...
...climax of the evening came in speeches by DeGuglielmo supporter Daniel J. Hayes Jr. and by Edward A. Crane '35, who filed the motion to replace DeGuglielmo...
...Crane--whom Hayes later identified as the target of his remarks--replied that they indicated "a severe case of cephalic elephantiasis; you can list it under envious idiocy...
...next speaker was Crane. "Don't turn a 16-inch gun on a canoe and don't get in the gutter because you know what happens," he said. "Suffice it to say that I am not a back room boss...if anyone wants to knock me out of the Cambridge public life they can do it every two years...
Defending his friendship with the Wasserman family, Crane said that his "attachment" to them dated back to the 1920's, long before his entrance into politics...