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...novels-a bargain at less than a dime each-meet not on the bestseller list, but on literature's highest common denominator. Their authors worked the same line of rugged country defined by Faulkner as "the human heart in conflict with itself ... the old verities and truths of the heart, the old universal truths lacking which any story is ephemeral and doomed-love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice...
...patient, a former salesgirl in a Baltimore five-and-dime store, married young and had two children. But after each birth she had a nervous breakdown. Estranged from her husband, she had three more children illegitimately, and each time suffered what psychiatrists call a "schizophrenic reaction, catatonic type." Still only 25, she is now at Maryland's Springfield State Hospital. Her brothers and sisters and her husband agreed that for her own good she should be sterilized. In a lucid interval she agreed...
...enough to remember when a beggar merely held out his cap and asked for an unspecified sum for an unspecified purpose. I can remember: "Sir, will you give me a nickel for a cup of coffee?" and the great democratic and inflationary shift to "Brother, can you spare a dime?" I have even been held up at pistol point and asked for $1.60 -no more, no less -an experience which Max Weber would somehow have been able to work into his great work Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. But I never expected to live long enough...
With Billy de Wolfe as her guest, Imogene Coca (Sat. 9 p.m., NBC) did little better with song and a strained set of sketches. Only in one skit-Motorist Coca trying to get through a toll station without a dime-did she show her talent for getting laughs with the famous whimper...
...Take a Dime. In general, the pattern for wage settlements was set by the steelmakers. The steelworkers asked for a package totaling some 50? an hour a worker (TIME. May 31), settled for 9? to 12? (including 5? in wages). Last week smaller steel fabricators were settling along the same lines with the union, and in some hardship cases were even getting concessions in their contracts. In Pittsburgh a number of building-trades unions signed new contracts this summer with no raise at all. The C.I.O. United Rubber Workers went after a reported 12? raise this year. They settled with...