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...years Harvester Heiress Mrs. Anita McCormick Elaine, cousin of Colonel Robert R. McCormick, was Chicago's Lady Bountiful. Before she died last February at 87 (TIME, Feb. 22), "Aunt Anita" had given away more than $10 million; even so, her estate topped $35 million. Her largess was distributed left and right, though in recent years, mostly left, e.g., $50,000 to Henry Wallace's Progressive Party presidential campaign...
...concept of blindness with the story of a rough, tough old horse dealer gone blind, who finds himself isolated and bewildered in a "home," where the matron refuses to read him the racing news. In the predictable tensions of the novelette-a middle-aged headmaster takes a teen-age cousin into his home, over the jealous opposition of his elegant, childless wife-Author Taylor finds unpredictable perceptions. The prose is studded with jeweled vignettes, e.g., the school matron: "As smooth as minnows were Mrs. Lancaster's phrases of welcome; she had soothed so many mothers, mothered so many boys...
...A.F.L. Teamsters' leader made himself a fund trustee for life at $30,000 a year, paid $85,000 to a cousin for land assessed at $10,500, spent so much that (despite an annual take of $250,000 from employers) the welfare fund has no funds left for welfare...
...social outlook, Nigel recalls Peck's Bad Boy, while in some of his insights about adults, he might be a distant cousin of J.D. Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. As created by British Humorist Geoffrey Willans and Cartoonist Ronald Searle, Molesworth could scarcely be more British, but Americans will still find him highly amusing, for the Boys' International cuts across all frontiers...
...Night has an authentic flavor because Novelist Henry is something of an expert on life in English prisons, having herself served an eight-month term in 1950 after being convicted of knowingly cashing forged checks (she pleaded, and still pleads, not guilty). She is 40, pretty, a cousin of Bertrand Russell, and a great-great-grandniece of Sir Robert Peel.* In prison Author Henry was called "the lidy," and told, "You talk lovely, but it don't get you far, do it, if you end up here?" But she turned her experience to good account with Women in Prison...