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...been moving to the city* but as their bodies moved cityward, their day dreams moved in the opposite direction. Year by year nostalgic books about the agrarian past have grown in popularity-books by and about grandmothers and grandfathers, memoirs of farm childhoods. One of the most popular was Delia Thompson Lutes's The Country Kitchen, recalling the Michigan childhood of a sturdy, quick-eyed girl who grew up to edit women's magazines, write etiquette books, &detest Faulkner and the end of Anthony Adverse.& The American Booksellers Association voted it &the most original book...
...people, some of them women with children in their arms, lengthened outside the city's relief stations. At two stations, applicants sat down, refused to budge for two days. At another a dozen or so formed a brass band to entertain their fellows. Said welfare office Supervisor Delia Milder: "They are sort of desperate now. They have been very tense...
...waste motions, sometimes with humor, frequently with a good deal of technical information thrown in-about steel mills, prize fights, greyhound racing, navigation. Except for Thomas Wolfe's story of racial conflict, The Child by Tiger, and Walter Edmonds' tale of a white woman captured by Indians, Delia Borst, the stories that tackle weighty subjects bog deep in sentimentality, occasionally, as in Jacland Marmur's A Woman of His Own, sink almost out of sight...
Died. Anning Smith Prall, 66, Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, six-time (1923-35) Representative from New York's eleventh Congressional District; in Boothbay Harbor, Me. Died-Mrs. Delia Spencer Caton Field, 84, widow of Chicago Department Store Owner Marshall Field; in Beverly, Mass. Mrs. Field was first married to Arthur J. Caton, Chicago corporation lawyer, who died in 1904. A year later she married Merchant Field, who died...
...story is that of Papa Kadan, wholesaler in ladies' dresses, who is financially pressed to the verge of frenzy in marrying off his preening elder daughter Clarisse to a well-heeled lawyer. When Clarisse (Jeanne Greene) has impoverished the attorney, she comes home to roost, appropriates her sister Delia's college tuition money for remodeling a fur coat, tries to get Delia's boy friend David too. David conveniently writes a novel, gets $25,000 for the movie rights, spurns Clarisse, marries Delia. Papa Kadan is further gratified when his stupid son Bert, an amateur boxer, marries...