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...autumn of 1836 . . . a married lady of my acquaintance . . . proposed to me that on her return [to New Salem, III. from a visit to Kentucky') she would bring a sister . . . upon condition that I would engage to become her brother-in-law with all convenient dispatch-I . . . accepted. . . , In due time [the lady] returned, sister in company sure enough-This stomached me a little. . . . I knew she was oversize, but she now appeared a fair match for Falstaff. . . . I could not for my life avoid thinking of my mother . . . from her want of teeth, weather-beaten appearance in general...
...TIME, June 3] has been read and censures duly noted. I think your readers might be interested to know that the first printing of this book was 80,000 copies and that the Dollar Book Club has agreed to take not fewer than half, a million copies next autumn...
...vacation crazy. Minnesota's lakes were rimmed with refugees from offices and kitchens. Western dude ranches were bright with the stiff new levis and multicolored shirts of amateur buckaroos. The bears in national parks were stealing garbage by the ton-the parks expected 25,000,000 visitors by autumn. Everywhere, summer homes, beach shacks, swimming clubs, tennis courts, golf courses were fully occupied...
Forests of tongues, like autumn leaves unshed...
...Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Fabien Sevitzky directs the NBC Symphony Orchestra in some old, some new music, including Tchaikovsky's Fifth and Leo Sowerby's Comes Autumn Time...