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...Bonney Homily...
...BONNEY FAMILY?Ruth Suckow? Knopf ($2.50). There are two old Bonneys, four little Bonneys?Warren, Sarah, Wilma & Wilfred. Mr. Bonney, a country clergyman, moves from the humble but well-beloved village of Morning Sun to a college town so that his children may have the advantage of college education. When this has had its effect, redheaded, eccentric Warren is a well-tamed professor; Sarah is a kind, sensible, placid young spinster; Wilma is married and faraway; Wilfred, who had especially liked rabbits or other animals, is dead in France. Wise Mrs. Bonney is dead too, and foolish, likable Mr. Bonney...
...read about Janitor Bonney and I read what he said about drinking in colleges [TIME, Nov. 14, LETTERS] and it made me think. I too went to college (what college I had better not say), I too knew a janitor who "waddled" through the dormitories. But he could not have been much like Janitor Bonney. Michael Bonney must be the best college janitor in the United States...
There were other speeches, but none was so genuinely witty, so suave, so good and unpretentious as the one which Michael Bonney made. Said...
After this, the faculty members, full of conviviality, sang "Auld Lang Syne." Their voices, Michael Bonney considered, were rather bad. But he said nothing. A humble man, he stood gently smiling around at his friends. He was content...