THE DANCING MASTERS describes the odyssey of Gene "Tiger" Bishop, a Korean War veteran haunted by the army's cover-up of an ambiguous battlefield situation that led to the death of his best friend. He has been honorably discharged because he gave up his attempt to bring the truth out. He returns to the small South Carolina college he left two years previously because he was running away from a responsibility to a mill girl in the town who loved him. He finds that the girl has disappeared and gradually becomes aware, as he emerges from the trauma of his experiences in Korea, that what he has...