Sport: Prowess in Action

''Gene Tunney, a writer who stands at the opposite pole from Hemingway, having abundantly established his prowess in action. . . ."

When Critic Max Eastman wrote this last month in The New Republic in an article which sought to attribute Author Ernest Hemingway's fondness for bloodshed to a neurosis resulting from the war, loud were the protests from Author Hemingway's loyal admirers. A more convincing if less spontaneous rebuttal to the Eastman attack was last week offered by a 468-lb. black marlin.

Last fortnight Hemingway, a few Cubans and the usual wicker...

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