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...what happens in The Fruit Tramp, a warm-hearted little first book about itinerant fruit and vegetable pickers who traipse along with the harvests. The orphaned hero, Polk Watson, leaves a Georgia farm to hit the picker's trail with his Uncle Chunk, a shrewd, garrulous, gallused cracker who proves to the hilt Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps and sudden violence which gives the flashes of human love and devotion...
Metropolitan newsmen who daydream of retiring to a country paper have long viewed weeklies more as a rural retreat than as an influential segment of the press. But with the swift growth of suburbs and small towns since World War II, weeklies have largely shed their cracker-barrel ways, developed sophistication and a new sense of mission. Today they are the fastest-growing publications in the U.S. Weekly Newspaper Representatives, Inc. reported last week that the 8,478 weeklies in the U.S. in 1956 reached a paid circulation peak of 18,529,199, up 6.5% over 1955. Estimated gain...
...channels will link 400 stations in 270 U.S. cities. ¶ An electronic blanket has been thrown over both convention cities. To harness all the new gadgetry, some 2,700 radio-TV people have already swept into the Midwest, hauling 60 tons of electronic eavesdroppers (cameras no bigger than a Cracker Jack box), Dick Tracy walkie-talkies, mini-corders, creepie-peepies and giant telescopic cranes that can poke around into hotel windows from the street. ¶ Automatic tabulating boards, flashing the changing total of delegation votes, will be superimposed on the viewer's screen so that he will not lose...
...three leads, Margaret, Faust, and Mephistopheles, make the most of their lines and play beautifully together. The brilliance of Frederick Warriner as Mephistopheles stood out like a sizzling fire cracker. He played a green and sparkling devil of serpentine grace and satanic power. A superb mime, Warriner walked the tightrope of maintaining himself as both a loathsome creature and a dilettante of debonair charm. He did not falter. The quiet, brooding force of Robert Evans acted as a good foil for Mephistopheles, and Evans handled his long monologue in the first act with superb skill. Margaret, as played by Frances...
...bottom of the question of the personality cult." When it comes to getting to the bottom of something, nobody can beat the Kremlin's leaders. Down they went in their hip boots, sloshing around in a swamp of doubletalk, and throwing little bits of misinformation behind them, like cracker crumbs, for those who tried to follow them. But they were not very helpful guides for those who anxiously sought answers to the questions implicit in Khrushchev's historic attack on Stalin at the 20th Party Congress (TIME, June...