Word: carson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...MEMBER OF THE WEDDING-Carson McCullers- Houghton Mifflin...
Frankie is the pawky, gawky heroine of Carson McCullers' slim (195-page) new novel-she calls it a novella. Unlike Novelist McCullers' earlier books (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Reflections in a Golden Eye), which were well filled with the complex, morbid relationships of adults, The Member of the Wedding is a serious attempt to recapture that elusive moment when childhood melts into adolescence. The result is often touching, always strictly limited by the small scope of its small characters. Like childhood, it is full of incident but devoid of a clear plot; always working...
Defense positions are to be filled by Bob Gardner and Bob Cowen, the latter having proved his worth, last Monday, as an ice as well as a gridiron star with some nice body checking. Cowen, incidentally, winds up his college career next month. Barry Carson and Bill Glidden will probably hold down the wingmen jobs, with Bill Ayres as center...
Among the 275 guests were Canadian-born Mary Pickford, Walter Pidgeon, Alexander Knox, Jack Carson; British-born Greer Garson, Gary Grant, Ronald Colman; such friendly neighbors as Margaret O'Brien, Shirley Temple, Jimmy Cagney...
...Conover models scored an average Otis I.Q. of 109.2-just as high as 2,500 college students given the same test. Brightest of all was Kit Carson, 20, (real name: Patricia Louise Carlson) who spent one year at the University of Minnesota. Height: 5 ft. 7½ in.; weight: 120 Ibs.; I.Q.: 125. Telephone number: Murray Hill...