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...appears that the worldwide Lowry vogue is to face its sternest test, a spate of posthumous manuscripts. There is a novella, Lunar Caustic, set in the psychiatric wards of New York City's Bellevue Hospital, and a full-length novel, October Ferry to Gabriola, about a guilt-haunted alcoholic, the latter work to be published in 1962. A couple of years ago, a longtime Lowry friend, Canadian Teacher Downie Kirk, salvaged a 3-ft. stack of manuscripts (poems, letters, stories, drafts of novels) from Lowry's British Columbia home, a squatter's cottage. Hear Us O Lord...
Taking power in a period of economic recession, the Kennedy Administration presented a spate of recovery bills to the Congress-which proceeded to take its time about enacting them. In 1958, Republican Eisenhower declined to take drastic pump-priming measures in a similar situation-and the economy righted itself. Last week President Kennedy's Commerce Department advisers bubbled that the economy was again righting itself (see BUSINESS)-and again without drastic measures. In his press conference last week, the President was pointedly asked why he couldn't seem to get people steamed up about his economic program...
...from Italy with $4 and turned it into millions before he died at 59 in 1950, they have faithfully carried on their father's habit of making money. They control New York's Colonial Sand & Stone Co., which gets a lot of city contracts, and a whole spate of smaller corporations. Powerful in civic and political affairs, they own two radio stations and two foreign-language newspapers-New York's Spanish La Prensa and Il Progresso Italo-Americano, the nation's oldest and most influential Italian-language newspaper. (Another brother, Generoso Jr., publishes the weekly...
...Richard Hiller Amberg, now 48, a grey-haired, hip-shooting combination of businessman, newsman and club-joining civic promoter. On the Globe, Amberg cut production costs, tidied the makeup, concentrated on suburban and local coverage that the internationally minded P-D had begun to neglect, and launched a spate of civic campaigns for better hospitals, better airline service, better traffic safety, and better everything else that would make his newspaper sell better...
...hair. His only crime is. he confesses, "the fact that I am alive"-although he explains in a frenzied bout of surrealist logic that he is not exactly responsible for that. Reading his fabulous and farcical misadventures is an experience like being cornered by a compulsive talker whose merciless spate of words first glazes the eye until a thread of rewarding sense emerges from the gabble. In this respect, he is unlike the typical Chaplin figure, whose weapon was silence, but like Chaplin's little fellow, he is a reincarnation of the classic non-hero of Jewish folklore-Peter...