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...life of the professional baseball player is sketched, at least, in Heywood Broun's The Sun Field; the professional pugilist appears in Jim Tully's Emmett Lawlor; steel and iron workers, both masters and men, pass through the pages of Caret Garrett's The Cinder Buggy. But in spite of these and the vast number of semi-humorous or mechanically conventional "sport stories" or "labor stories" in our popular magazines?a good deal of modern American fiction seems to deal with a class of characters who form a very small minority of the population...
...riveter, a sandhog, a bush league pitcher, Regular Army Sergeant, a worker in the steel mills, a miner, a railroad engineer, a hoofer in the three-a-day?where are their stories? Where are the stories of the people without inherited incomes who have neither time, money nor opportunity for the elegant complications of country club life? They themselves are inarticulate? But is anyone more inarticulate artistically than the average bond salesman...
...seem ungracious to clamor like this, in a publishing season that has already produced so many worthy novels. But?we wonder just what would happen if one of the younger or youngest generation worked in a steel mill for a couple of years before he wrote his next novel. It might be the Great American Novel after...
...CINDER BUGGY?Garet Garrett?Dutton ($2.00). Wrought iron made New Damascus great, in its moment?wrought iron and two men, Aaron Breakspeare and Enoch Gib. Aaron, the popular, engaging, lovable idealist; Enoch the dour and practical, well-hated, well-feared. The men clashed over two things? a woman and steel. Popular Aaron won the woman but his dream of a steel age failed?it was still too early. Enoch clung to iron?and when Aaron's son, John Breakspeare, brought his father back to New Damascus, dead, the clash between practical Enoch and young Breakspeare, between iron and steel...
...center of the American busi ness stage has been almost monopolized by the stock market during the past week. Ten days ago share prices were distinctly weak; of the speculative "leaders," Can declined ¼ in a day, Baldwin ?, Studebaker ?, Steel 1?. Even the reliable chain stores sold off sharply. Stewart Warner dropped...