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...Civil War, (the only war they recognize) has left them little changed. Indeed, the grizzled old deacons are constantly harking back to the good old days, and the occasional automobile seen in those parts is regarded with mild contempt by eyes which, in brighter days, have seen the Colonel spin swiftly past in his glittering coach and four...
...Sonja Henie, of Norway, world's champion woman figure skater: a title contest before the Norwegian royal family in which the U. S. champion, graceful Maribel Vinson of Boston, fell during a spin, landed in fifth place; at Oslo...
...Fisher does succeed, in "Passions Spin the Plot," in keeping his straight-forward method at an unusually high level. Most of the irrelevancies are later reclaimed and justified; a clear continuity of impression has been preserved. Vridar Hunter, an Idaho farm boy, first of his line to enter the doors of a college, emerges from the second volume as a Wasatch alumnus; the record of his transformation is a careful, and a revealing, one. His problems are the old problems of youth; their setting has made them more intense and more bitter. Sex and ambition and disillusionment come sharply...
...PASSIONS SPIN THE PLOT - Vardis Fisher-Caxton & Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). If the last two volumes of his tetralogy are on a par with the first two (In Tragic Life-TIME, July 3; Passions Spin the Plot}. U. S. critics will be speaking of Idaho's Author Vardis Fisher in the same breath with Indiana's Theodore Dreiser. No less doggedly candid than Dreiser but a more artful writer, Author Fisher intends his four-decker novel to be an honest book. Because he has had a hard, unhappy life and because he writes only of what he knows...
However ingenious these speculations may appear, it is regrettable that Mr. Fruchs has not seen fit to advance any scientific data in support of them. The time has passed when it is possible for anyone to sit back comfortably and spin out a theory of the origin of institutions hoping to gain acceptance for it. Too much anthropological evidence has been gathered, too many facts have been garnered concerning primitive society, to allow the plausibility of any account which omits them. Unfortunately Mr. Fruchs' account is completely innocent of any anthropological data; his social contract is pure hypothesis...