Word: californianism
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Among readers who fancy vampires, succubi, werewolves and other monsters, a young (35) Californian named Ray Bradbury is regarded as the arrived monster-monger, fit replacement for August Derleth, eldritch statesman of the well-informed witchlover. Author Bradbury may owe even more to John Collier, another veteran djinn-and-bitters addict. Like Mary Wollstonecraft (Frankenstein) Shelley and Bram (Dracula) Stoker, these writers appeal to the middle or relatively uncorrugated brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose...
...Supreme Court put an end last week to a treason case that had been bungled from the beginning: the prosecution of ex-Sergeant John David Provoo, a Californian who took up Buddhism in his youth, lived in a Japanese monastery, later enlisted in the U.S. Army. Captured on Corregidor in 1942, at 25, he served the Japanese as a stool pigeon, according to his fellow prisoners, and brought about the execution of a U.S. captain. But the Army brought no charges after the war, and Provoo re-enlisted; it was 1949 before he was indicted for treason, and 1953 before...
Unhappy but Far from Hopeless. An other name that promptly came to the top of the list : Chief Justice Earl Warren, 64, another Californian. Speculation turned to him because he is a Republican of the Eisenhower pattern who showed, in California, that he could win strong support in both parties. Last April, Warren sought to take himself out of the running with a statement that he went to the Supreme Court with the fixed purpose of leaving politics permanently. Said he: "That is still my purpose. It is irrevocable. I will not change under any circumstances or conditions." Nevertheless...
...87th running of the mile-and-a-half Belmont Stakes. Meanwhile. 3,000 miles away at Hollywood Park, Swaps, the long-striding chestnut colt that beat Nashua in the Kentucky Derby, took on Determine, the 1954 Derby winner, and came home a length in front in the $109,800 Californian. Swaps's time: a world record 1:40-2/5 for the mile-and-a-sixteenth course...
...admission, Californian Clifford Rue, 30, used to be a monumental bore. He was the kind of sports fan who never could wait for the morning papers, spent half his time on the telephone badgering newspaper editors for up-to-the-minute dope. "Look," said a harassed sportswriter when Rue called him once too often, "we can't afford to take time off to give people running accounts of every cursing fight and ball game. We wouldn't have time to do anything else...