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...fathers, both have headed one of Sears's five big regional divisions, and both wear clothes that look as if they come off the Sears racks (and do). New Mexico-born, Cushman left the University of California after his junior year to join Sears's archrival, Montgomery Ward, rose to a department manager in Oakland, but quit in 1930 rather than take a Depression demotion.* He joined Sears as a part-time salesman, by 1949 had climbed to command of the eight-state Western region...
...Cushman will be the third former Ward's employee to become chairman of Sears. The others: General Robert E. Wood, who was fired by Ward in 1924, and Theodore Houser, who quit Ward to follow Wood...
...world of this brilliant first novel is Inside-inside a mental hospital and inside the blocked minds of its inmates. Sordid sights and sounds abound, but Novelist Kesey has not descended to mere shock treatment or isolation-ward documentary. His book is a strong, warm story about the nature of human good and evil, despite its macabre setting. For as the boardinghouse provided a stock slice-of-life locale for another generation of writers, the sanitarium seems to appeal to many modern writers as a comparable microcosm of the times...
...Indian chief. Scarred by World War II and his white mother's destruction of his proud father, he opts out of things so completely that for years the staff of the mental hospital have believed him to be deaf and dumb. His skewed observation of the ward-world is well managed; the reader has a vivid sense both of "the Chief's" sick perceptions and of the reality behind them...
...Italian upper class, L'Avventura studies an individual, not a class. It unfolds through personalities instead of tiresome figures transplanted from an Everyman play. And even more gratifying, this gracefully wrought story reveals a person whose uniqueness is respected; it is not a discombobulated tirade against a way-ward society...