Books: Bestseller Revisited, Apr. 11, 1955

THE TUMULT AND THE SHOUTING (368 pp.)—Grantland Rice—Barnes ($5).

To millions of U.S. fans, Grantland Rice belonged as much to the golden age of sport as the heroes he wrote about—Tilden and Ruth and Dempsey, Rockne and Jones and Cobb. His phrases were memorable. Of Notre Dame's 1924 victory over Army, he wrote: "Outlined against a blue-gray October sky, the Four Horsemen rode again. In dramatic lore they are known as Famine, Pestilence, Destruction and Death. These are only aliases. Their real names are Stuhldreher, Miller, Crowley and Layden."

The Tumult and the Shouting,...

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