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...BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE (791 pp.) -Carson McCullers-Houghton Mifilin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shy & the Lonely | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...McCullers has the pleasure of seeing a fat volume of her collected works: the three novels, six middling stories, and a superb novelette that serves as a title piece, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe. Taken together, the 791 pages pretty well establish Novelist McCullers as one of the top dozen among contemporary U.S. writers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shy & the Lonely | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

...writing is part of the American tradition of mooning, the tradition represented by Sherwood Anderson, Thomas Wolfe, Eugene O'Neill sometimes, and, at his rare best, William Saroyan. She can be soft and soupy, but at top form, as in The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, Carson McCullers has sharp sight, warm tenderness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Shy & the Lonely | 6/4/1951 | See Source »

Mukden reported that 1,120,000 people -the city's entire population-attended one or another of twelve trials. The main show, at which "hundreds" were condemned to death, took place at the Municipal Sports Stadium. It began with the spectators singing a romantic ballad from Chairman Mao Tse-tung's favorite drama, The White-Haired Woman.* Then Police Chief Ho Yah read the charges against the accused. The audience responded with the usual chants of hate and death. An actress emerged from the crowd, accused her father of heinous crimes, including rape, and demanded his death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Terror's Progress | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...looks as though Tin Pan Alley plans to force U.S. music lovers to waltz their way through the rest of the 48. Je T'Adore (Bette Chapel; Mercury). Miss Chapel's cozy, loose-upper-plate style gives distinction to a run-of-the-mill intime ballad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: New Pop Records, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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