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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Madison Alexander Cooper Jr., 63, Waco (Texas) bachelor who managed his family's real-estate fortune, courted "a string of widows," in his spare time turned out (1952) the lusty, lengthy (two volumes, 1,731 pp., 840,000 words) novel, Sironia, Texas, which told in raw, unselective detail everything that happened in 20 years to some 30 major characters; of a heart attack in his auto after completing his thrice-weekly, mile-long jog around the Municipal Stadium track; in Waco, Texas...
Holding to his no-politics promise, Ike touched upon the farm problem only long enough to say that he would discuss it in detail (at Peoria this week). He guessed that "many of you here will not agree with me. Some of you, frankly, will probably think I am a little bit crazy. But I am quite sure that none of you will think I am not honest." The crowd applauded, and Ike went on to suggest how the nation might "find the right answers" to its problems great and small-by approaching them "as Americans and in the spirit...
Most moving section of the book is that devoted to the hymns (see box). Most puzzling is the strange document called "The War of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness," which seems like a ritual battle out of Revelation. It is filled with precise detail ("The line troops are to be 40 to 50 years of age . . . The officers, too, are to be from 40 to 50 years of age; and all who strip the dead and collect the spoil and clean up the terrain and keep the weapons and prepare the food are to be between...
Comparing the illness of Eisenhower last year with that of President Woodrow Wilson in 1919-1920, Truman said "the provisions of the Constitution governing the succession of the Vice-President are not spelled out in detail, and the illness or incapacity of a President can be more dangerous even than his death...
...writes, for example, "Justin returned to his shaving and tried to change his thoughts by applying alcohol and powder to his skin." Whether or not Justin is a solipsist, the relationship between his facial activity and his mental processes is extremely tenuous. The point is that the eye for detail is not the selective eye achieving an effect on the reader, but the indiscriminate camera throwing together instants unrelated both to each other and to any apparent overall objective. Then, too, there is the jarring alternation between the telegraphic stream of consciousness, a difficult and seldom effective device, and aphoristic...