Books: Ole! Ole!

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DEATH in THE AFTERNOON—Ernest Hemingway—Scribner ($3.50).

Ernest Hemingway, first modern exponent of the school of hard-boiled irony, white hope of intelligentsiacs who pride themselves on not being softies, has built himself into that rare phenomenon of a popular author who is spoken well of by the critics. His last novel, A Farewell to Arms, received both Hollywood and high-brow huzzas. His latest book, not aimed at so wide an audience, may alienate many of his new disciples, but it is a genuinely Hemingway production....

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