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VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. A new and nimble biography of Carry Nation, whose hatchet made a shambles of saloons from Medicine Lodge to Coney Island...
VESSEL OF WRATH, by Robert Lewis Taylor. Although assorted biographers of Carry Nation have tried before to do justice to the lady with the hatchet, Taylor is the first to succeed-with a book that is as irreverent as it is readable...
...State's Spartans hooted that the Fighting Irish were "sissies" two weeks ago, after Notre Dame played it safe in the game's final minute and settled for a 10-10 tie. Last week Southern California, the nation's No. 10-ranked team, faced the Irish wrath. Notre Dame Quarterback Coley O'Brien, subbing for injured Terry Hanratty, passed for 255 yds., and his mates gained another 206 on the ground. Final score in the slaughter: 51-0-which ought to make Purdue a prohibitive favorite against Southern Cal in the Rose Bowl...
VESSEL OF WRATH by Robert Lewis Taylor. 373 pages. New American Library...
Vessel of Wrath is a splendid tribute to its destructive subject, even though Parodist Taylor is outmatched. Carry's memory is secure from parody. She was a woman so extravagantly beyond the normal pale that even her avowed enemies, the whisky dispensers, had trouble believing she was real. Ultimately they became her most devoted allies, hiring bands to accompany her on lecture tours, subscribing to her house organ, The Smasher's Mail, and cheerfully providing the beer kegs that she mounted on street corners all over the country...