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...after its founder, Democratic Senator Gilbert Hitchcock, died in 1934. It is solidly established in a conservative Republican state. It gives Nebraskans what they want: a tidy-looking paper heavy on rural affairs and light on international affairs, concise and easily digested frontpage stories that almost never ask the reader to turn to an inside page. Its seven morning and five afternoon editions, with a combined circulation of 254,962 (270,189 on Sunday), returned a handsome profit last year of $1,700,000 after taxes. Assorted other properties owned by the controlling World Publishing Company, including Omaha television station...
...field of concentration was American History and Literature, but he was much more interested in literature than in history, and was particularly passionate about fiction, both as a reader and a writer of it. Every year he took a course in short story writing. He studied under Howard Mumford Jones and Arthur M. Schleshinger, Jr., under Raphael Demos and John L. Finley. His grades were respectable: A's and B's, mostly B's, and just a sprinkling...
...plot of this old nightmare is too athletic to be staged successfully in an age dulled by realism, but in Stacton's retelling it moves as smoothly as the oiled gears of a stretching rack. The reader's disbelief is abruptly suspended-as from a gibbet-as the rich young widowed duchess runs off with her lover Antonio, and her brothers, the bloody Ferdinand and the scheming Cardinal, stalk her to earth for profit and incestuous love...
Stacton's brooding chronicle, the best horror story in years, prods the reader to panicky speculation: What lurks behind the shadows of the mind? The death of the incestuous Ferdinand, who is set upon by vengeful dwarfs, is a marvel of umbrousness: "The dwarfs stood in a semicircle, watching. They had never brought down anything so large before. It made them solemn. Ferdinand took a long time to die. Then the rustle of silk inside his brain abruptly stopped...
...spongy patches that appear much too frequently in a novel that is otherwise exciting and knowledgeable. Writing of reform politicians in his last book, Author Dougherty gave his narrative that leaven of malice which is the salt of a certain kind of novel writing. In The Commissioner, the reader may feel malice-especially if he is a frequent traffic-ticketee-but the author clearly does not. Anthony Russell, the dour Irish moralist who is the police commissioner of the title, has Dougherty's worshipful approval. Russell's problems are believable-what to do about his oldest friend...