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...fugitive from multiplication and Sunday school ... He lived in the Victorian, gabled, ginger-bready house of his maternal grandpa, a sea captain with a bushy mustache. This man's name was Edward Hall Adkins. The Negroes called him Cap'n Hawley and the white folks called him Ned Hall. Ned could shoot very fine and whittle very good and in his eyes a small boy was never never very wrong...
...With this book, 41-year-old Author Ruark (Something of Value) deserts Mau-Mau country for magnolia land. He has written a boozy-bucolic picture postcard reminiscence of his North Carolina boyhood. In Author Ruark's memory-misted eyes the Old Man (Ned Hall) is a cross between Thoreau and Natty Bumppo, and the Boy (Robert Chester Ruark Jr.) a blend of Huck Finn and Hemingway's Nick Adams. Less affected readers may feel that they are merely reading the diary of a bad boy scout spending an endless hunting-and-fishing trip with a garrulous, overage camp...
...freshman meet, another undefeated squad faces a talented Eli opponent. The Bullpups have lost only to the Fordham freshmen, and they boast three phenomenal runners in Tom Carroll, holder of the schoolboy 880 record, Ned Roache, and Bill Bachrach, who has beaten them both. Bachrach currently holds the Yale freshman cross country record...
...program called The People Speak even broadcast angry bleats from citizens who denounced the Blade for covering up a Negro crime wave. More than 1,500 women registered for judo courses at the U.S. Marine Corps station. Toledo's police chief asked for ten more patrolmen. Vice Mayor Ned Skeldon proposed an 11 p.m. curfew. Citizens' committees bombarded city hall with demands for action...
Melville Cooper, Jack Hollander and Guy Sorel have the proper slickness for the evil president, prospector and baron. The large number of supporting roles provide several fine vignettes: Tom Bosley does fine double duty as the double-talking broker and the sad, flower-loving sewer man; Ned Murphy actually plays the guitar as the street-singer who knows only the first two lines of his song; and Lance Cunard is a comic Dr. Jadin, who believes that "as the foot goes, so goes...