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...down with him, for largely through the bedeviled old man's mismanagement, the emigrants-now at the end of their trek and busily founding a new settlement-are caught off guard by a Zulu attack, wiped out to a man. But the cinematic plot serves principally as a framework for descriptions of the routine of South African pioneer life: the hunts, skirmishes, prayer meetings, occasional festivals. This more or less documentary side of the book will sustain most readers' interest in a novel that would otherwise be only soso...
...other militant labor leader to hasten the end of the employing classes in his day-to-day tactics. John L. Lewis is as much of a capitalist as Tom M. Girdler. Their immediate objectives may differ but neither could conceive of working for those objectives except within the framework of capitalism. But while Harry Bridges also works within a capitalistic framework, socialism to him is a desirable reality. Both Harry Bridges and John Lewis are working for Labor, both believe in political action by Labor. But their thinking processes are as different as those of Trotsky and Stalin. Theoretically...
...chief creditor and that she has been invited to live there because the proprietor of the hat shop (Franklin Pangborn) has spread the rumor that she is J. B. Ball's mistress. In Easy Living this situation serves under Mitchell Leisen's adroit direction as the framework for one of the season's silliest and most entertaining farces which reaches its climax when Mary Smith invades J. B. Ball's Broad Street office with three sheep dogs at the moment when he is trying to repair the damage caused by his son's incautious revelations...
...preventable within the framework of capitalism in its present imperialist phase", claimed the British Laborite. "There will be war because the whole relation of production is out of gear with the power of governments...
...GOOD AMERICANS-Jerome Bahr- Scribner ($2.50). Thirteen short stories in a Winesburg, Ohio framework, by a young writer whose talent will bear watching. Novelist Ernest Hemingway praises these stories for "their solid, youthful worth, their irony, their humor, their peasant lustiness." ALLI'S SON-Magnhild Haalke-Knopf ($2.50). Sombre Norwegian story of a young sailor's wife whose son becomes a psychopathic case; a first novel recommended to U. S. readers by Nobel Prize-winner Sigrid Undset...