YOU NEED A COMPLETE REST

Charles F. Haywood '25. Boston: Nichols-Ellis Press, 1953. 154 pp. $2.50.

In his latest offering Charles Haywood has supplanted his intrepid Captain Flint of "No Ship May Sail" by a rather colorful founder of a Boston investment trust, Ken Clarke, whose intense devotion to the development of his organization has produced a thriving Fund as well as a drawerful of antacids and gastric pacifiers. Clarke's financial astuteness is matched only by his naivete in medical lore; hence we are not surprised to find him in a state of acute collapse on the occasion of the Fund's twentieth anniversary banquet. Complete rest is the stern prescription which he accepts in theory but which proves too bitter for consumption when a prospective customer appears in the form of a golf partner.

Clarke's rather starting eschewal of further medical aid and his effective though highly irregular means of regaining mental and gastric equanimity are episodes which should be sampled by the reader without preparation by the reviewer.

Though Mr. Haywood's solution of the problem of the tense executive can hardly be called conventional, one will discover in his tale a choice therapeutic kernel wrapped in a brightly colored husk.