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...festival was started by two women, Dene Denny and Hazel Watrous, who went to Carmel for a vacation 24 years ago, and have been there ever since. They have sometimes lost money on the Bach festival, but make it up on a San Jose theatrical booking agency and a Monterey theater that they...
Among the first to preach artillery's new possibilities was quiet, pipe-smoking Brigadier General Jesmond Dene Balmer, now Field Artillery School Commandant. Seven months in wartime Washington had taught him that orders are not only to be obeyed but anticipated. Long before the War Department fully realized what time fire could do, Jess Balmer was calling for its use on a huge scale. North Africa proved his point-and led ground forces to multiply orders for time shells. Long before the War Department had recognized the G.F.T., Sill was turning out homemade ones, paper strips mounted on beaverboard...
...backwoods, he both delights and surprises white-trash Clay Horey by driving into the yard one day and demanding food, lodging and female solace from one of the "high-yallers" down the road. Horey is glad to comply until Semon makes a play for his 15-year-old wife, Dene. The novel bounces riotously from lecherous high jinks to a crap game in which Horey loses money, new car and spouse to the all-powerful Man of God. The book reaches a tropical heat-wave climax with Sunday's revival meeting in the schoolhouse, where the inhabitants of Rocky...