Word: broughton
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ELIZABETH BROUGHTON : "She lost her Mayden-head to a poor young fellow ... in 1660 . . . and away she gott to London, and did sett up for her selfe. She was a most exquisite beautie, as finely shaped as Nature could frame . . . and her price was very deare . . . Richard, Earle of Dorset, kept her [but] at last she grew common and infamous and gott the Pox, of which she died ... I remember thus much of an old song...
...from Bess Broughton's buttond smock...
There are two good short stories in the latest Advocate, one by graduating Bob Cumming, the other by ex-undergraduate Alan Broughton. There is also a story by Sallie Bingham which won the Advocate Prize, and five poems by assorted authors...
...Broughton's piece is perhaps the best of recent months. He has succeeded at the dramatic, which is more than most undergraduate technicians do. While his effect is achieved partly by control of language and adept manipulation of detail, the primary reason for success is the invention of a fascinating hero...
...Cumming's story is also dramatically successful. He has created people who are interesting if not always imminent, and put them in a situation which is revealing if occasionally strained. Like Broughton he is always in control of his story, although his self-conscious narrator is perhaps an unsuccessful crutch...