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THE DARING YOUNG MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE-William Saroyan-Random House ($2.50). Last week a new writer appeared on the U. S. horizon. Not much bigger at first sight than a man's hand, this portent promised a change of weather to come, perhaps even a cyclone. All...
From the first, Housing Administrator Moffett met obstacles. The campaign mapped out for him called for: 1) modernization of 13,000,000 buildings in the U. S. ; 2) stimulation of a new building boom. Since both aims were to be accomplished without direct use of govern ment money, Mr. Moffett...
In Damian, Rumania, villagers haunted by the "ghost" of Mrs. Stephen Safta, suicide, exhumed her body, cut out her heart, burned it, scattered the ashes.
THE RECKONING-Leane Zugsmith- Smith & Haas ($2.50). As the Old Guard of U. S. novelists gradually dies or fades away without surrendering, new recruits are unostentatiously closing up gaps in the ranks. When the next dress parade is held, alert reviewers will see among the new faces that of Author...
Inheriting melancholia from his father and scrofulously infected by his nurse's milk, Sam Johnson got off to a bad start. Though huge-framed and strong as a bull, he was myopic, twitchety, haunted by fears of madness and death. Net result, says Kingsmill, was to make him the...