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To the people of Bloomingdale, Ala., Lilian Sayre must have seemed a lucky girl. Conventionally pretty and completely ordinary, she had come from a farm village in the middle of the state and married handsome Carl Sayre. He was only a grocer, to be sure, but by Bloomingdale standards he...
Civilized Pallor. English Novelist Percy Howard Newby is another writer who has mastered the basic problems of his craft but can't seem to let his talent stretch. His Young May Moon (TIME, Jan. 15, 1951), a novel about the troubles of a young boy when his mother dies...
Such a story, riding pickaback on issues of the moment, is carried more by its contemporaneity than by any strength in the author. That strength emerges only in the last six stories in the book, six strong, quiet stories of Jewish family life in the U.S. Here, for the first...
In other words, compared, say, to a Chevrolet roadster, the current Indianapolis or Grand Prix Formula I racing cars are "little" automobiles . . . But the "big" racing car romantic legend dies hard.
Last summer, many Air Force planes began having trouble with their fuel and oil hoses. In dives and steep banks, clamps on the hoses snapped. The trouble was finally traced to a tiny screw that was threaded at something like a 40° instead of a 30° angle. Six...