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...downtrodden in Compton-Bur nett are the young people: lonely, badly dressed, capriciously mistreated. In Bullivant and the Lambs, perhaps her best book, they are used to create a series of comic tableaux. Asked what they are doing, one replies: "We are waiting for time to pass." Another spends his time rereading his favorite story, the book of Job. In The Last and the First, when the put-upon young Heriots and Grimstones meet for tea, a minor Heriot says, "We have been looking forward to the day." A Grimstone replies: "We would have done so, but the faculty...
From this aggressive faith in the rewards of enterprise, hardheaded Newsboy Gannett (accent on the nett) never wavered. It led him, frustratingly, into politics, notably as the highly unsuccessful "businessman's candidate" for the Republican presidential nomination in 1940, into propaganda as angel and pamphleteer for the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government and sundry other ultraconservative pressure groups. Through industry and acumen, round-faced, open-handed Frank Gannett also built one of the nation's biggest and most profitable newspaper empires. When he died last week in Rochester at 81, long-ailing Frank Gannett not only owned...
Samborski said that the hitting at a practice game yesterday afternoon had been encouraging. Chuck Scheer, slated to bat in the clean-up slot today, blasted out a good triple. George Donovan, Nett Bortz, and George Anderson also seemed to be connecting...
...living authors have been deluged with the spate of homage which highbrow critics have loosed on I. Compton-Bur-nett. But as far as the general public is concerned, she might as well be dead-and not even her most passionate admirers (who include Elizabeth Bowen and Rosamund Lehmann) could fairly accuse the public of stupidity and ignorance. For all Compton-Burnett's novels (she has published eleven during the past 37 years) appear at first glance to be out of this world, artificial, aimless...
Young Henry Ford, barely settled in his new chair as president, gave his billion dollar empire a shaking that rattled its teeth. The first shake tumbled Harry Ben nett out of power...