Word: ann
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Narrows, by Ann Petry. Passion and violence between black and white in an unexpected setting: respectable Connecticut (TIME...
...Narrows, by Ann Petry. Passion and violence between black and white in an unexpected setting: respectable Connecticut (TIME...
...NARROWS (428 pp.)-Ann Pefry -Houghton Mifflin...
...ends the life story of Link Williams, hero of The Narrows, by Ann Petry. It is a story of black and white, love and violence. One of the remarkable things about it is its setting: not the conventional smoldering South, nor the familiar, raw Northern city slum (which Author Petry well described in The Street, 1946), but the wind-blown Connecticut town of Monmouth, where dark, violent deeds are hard to imagine and slums are small enough to be swept under the carpet. Born and raised in Old Saybrook, Conn., Negro Author Ann Petry has the background to make...
Manhattan's Hattie Carnegie, for one, was tempted to go along with Dior. Other buyers were uncertain or hostile. Snapped Adolph Schuman, president of San Francisco's Lilli Ann Corp.: "The psychology of the American woman is not ready for a change." Bergdorf Goodman's Andrew Goodman cabled his New York office to ignore the change. Carmel Snow of Harper's Bazaar, the doyenne of U.S. fashion arbiters, supported him. Said she: "Perfectly marvelous publicity for Dior, but you can't find any woman who wants skirts riding up around her knees...