Word: cabins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...like a man departing suddenly into a dream, Traven forgets all about his principal characters, including even the invaluable piglets, and turns his novel into a featureless mass drama which he can neither inspire nor bring to a conclusion. His Rebellion winds up as third-rate Uncle Tom's Cabin, with the debilitating difference that the slavery Traven writes about with John Brown heat has already been abolished...
...visiting head of state. She addressed the Indian Parliament, was feted by scores of officials from Nehru on down. Newspapers ran her every word as front-page news. "Please," she pleaded at one point, when she was questioned about American race problems, "do not read Uncle Tom's Cabin and believe it represents the United States today." Indian Statesman Sir Benegal Rau spoke of her as a U.S. phenomenon comparable to Niagara Falls. In Bombay an admiring Indian textile worker spread ice yards of silk in her path up a tenement district stairway. She went right on being...
...Everything was wrecked except the cabin," Hall said, describing their escape. He was uninjured; Wright suffered slight cuts and bruises and spent a night in Mr. Pleasant Hospital, Westmoreland County...
...Netherlands government has replaced the S. S. Volendam, formerly an all-student liner, with the S. S. Grote Beer and the S. S. Zuiderkrus, which sail from New York on June 30 and July 5 and from Rotterdam, September 3 and 4. Cabin space sells for $360 per round trip, while the less squeamish can obtain dormitory banking for $200. Since the pleasantly tarnished reputation of the Volendam is universal, accommodations will be hard to find. An attempt can be made, however, by writing to the Netherlands Office for Foreign Students Relations, 48 West 48 St., New York...
...Going to Yale." Legend has it that Carey Estes Kefauver was a poor-but-honest youngster raised in a rough Tennessee mountain cabin. This is just a legend. The Kefauvers were a branch of one of the first families of Madisonville. Tenn., a small (pop. 1,487) town in the foothills of the Great Smokies. Aside from Depression stringencies, father Robert Cooke Kefauver was comfortably fixed. He owned a local hardware store and served five times as mayor of Madisonville. To pick up extra money and toughen himself for football at the University of Tennessee, young "Keef" worked through...