Books: Hard Babies

NAKED on ROLLER SKATES*Maxwell Bodenheim—Liveright ($2).*

Terry Barberlit, onetime hobo, circus-pegger, doughboy, sailor, anarchist, con man, all-time sensationalist and wanderer of the world, was 56 and looked older until you got in a fight with him. Terry was resting from his labors by peddling snake oil medicine in country villages when he ran into Ruth, a young garage-owning widow with a viperish tongue. She liked him more than he liked her. She asked him over for a drink. When he left town next day she went with him. Terry had agreed to look...

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