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...Though doubtless now our shrewd machines...
...managed to be pretty funny in his new role, although doubtless not as comical as the fellow his practical jokers once threw into a lake, alive, weighted down with slot machines. At 55, Al was ripe for the part; he had grown rich, fleshy, imperious and sentimental on the rewards of death. He wore the big tipper's air of assurance as he walked into the bright, mirrored, roomy barber shop and ordered a haircut; he closed his eyes contentedly as he felt the clippers on his thick neck. He was completely oblivious of two dark, sallow...
...journalistic approach will doubtless make the book valuable as source material for sociologists some twenty or thirty years hence, but it precludes any appreciable literary achievements. Such a technique fits descriptions of American cities and landscapes much better, and it is here that Kerouac occasionally is not bad reading. But Thomas Wolfe did all that much better, for he at least knew when to let a scene carry him along by its own weight and happily didn't feel obliged to punctuate the description with "Ah's" and "Oh's" or "Wild man; Wild...
...pension and welfare fund rules, strong laws defining conflict-of-interest deals, a federal commission similar to the Securities and Exchange Commission, that would protect the public interest against corrupt union activities just as SEC clamps down on abuses in business financing. Arkansas' Democratic Senator John McClellan will doubtless offer a series of proposals growing out of his labor-rackets committee investigation...
...June primary over Goodie Knight. But Knowland might well have a tougher time against his likely Democratic opponent, Attorney General Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown, who has the advantage of California's larger Democratic registration, is running ahead of Knowland in informal polls, and would doubtless get help from some unhappy Knight Republicans...