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...Farmer James McClellan, Isaac McClellan, sometime farmer himself, schoolteacher and country editor, longtime lawyer and dabbler in Democratic politics, was quite a man. He remarried in three years, started tutoring John when the boy was four. He pushed hard and John gritted himself ahead, within two years was doing fine in the fourth grade of Ike's school. When Ike turned from teaching to politics, he took John along on the political trail...
...National Bank (capital: $807,000), seemed the very model of a progressive small-town banker. A frugal, prosperous bachelor of 50 who daily carried his lunch -a cold fried-egg sandwich and a Thermos of iced tea-to the bank in a wicker bas ket, he was a tireless dabbler in civil affairs. He led the movement for the summertime Empire State Music Festival that attracted thousands of culture seekers and dollars to Ellenville, was a district president in 1953 of the State Bankers Association, head usher of the Methodist Church. In the quiet little summer-resort village...
...tone for this whole collection of 25 short stories by V. S. (for Victor Sawdon) Pritchett. At 55, Pritchett is perhaps the best literary critic now writing in English. He is also a subtle interpreter of national character and environment (The Spanish Temper) and an occasional but brilliant dabbler in fiction. He calls his short stories "the only kind of writing that has given me pleasure [and] always elated me." The elation is shared by the reader...
...Ways. Kwame Nkrumah had a particular reason for wanting to win decisively. Should he win "a reasonable majority in a newly elected legislature," the British Colonial Office had promised, the Gold Coast would get "a firm date" for independence, become the first black nation in the Commonwealth. Nkrumah, onetime dabbler in Marxism, now talks of "self-government in an atmosphere of peace, order and respect for the law." And for all the burblings of Blimps about the blacks, British colonialism has a stake in Gold Coast progress. "That's for you chaps to decide," the colony's able...
...hard-working Brooklyn boy who started out in an amateur-night act in 1931. He gagged his way into nightclubs and theaters, later made out passably well in a few Broadway shows and movies. "I was," he says, "a fairly well-known bum." A dabbler of sorts, he has twice played serious roles on TV dramatic shows, conducts and writes music, although he cannot read notes ("I use numbers and arrows, then I call in an arranger and tell him what I want"). His newest hobby, psychic research, may prove profitable, for he is planning a TV show that will...