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...welfare state Jane Austen, a novelist in whose hands the commonplace becomes mysteriously implausible, the routine eerily irrational. Unlike the scheming septuagenarians of her earlier novel, Memento Mori, the inhabitants of Peckham Rye are so determinedly average that they lack even the capacity to sin grandly. When Mr. Vincent Druce, the managing director of a small textile firm, visits his secretary, Miss Merle Coverdale, to make love to her in the evening, their activity is as carefully calculated as the time-motion studies with which Druce plagues his employees: dinner before the TV (Brussels sprouts with a bottle of stomach...
...Druce Harriman: President of Crimson Key Society, Chairman. Kirkland House Committee, Chmn. of Sub-committee for Houses to review Student Council Activities...
...heard notion that coaches spend "sleepless nights" when they have worries is quite pertinent this week in the case of the varsity soccer team; and Coach Druce Munro hopes his sleepless nights will bring about a Crimson triumph when the team takes on Army at noon today on the Business School Field...
Strong you ng men were scarce anywhere in Owosso, Mich., and painfully so at the W. R. Roach Canning Co. plant. Buxom Kitty Marie Case, 20, and thin, swarthy, 18-year-old Shirley Jean Druce, who worked there, fretted about it almost as much as did the management. Then a labor gang of German prisoners from the nearby Owosso prison camp arrived under MP guard. The manpower shortage was met-but there were ugly complications. Last week, in the Bay City (Mich.) Federal Court, the Misses Case and Druce were convicted of conspiracy to defraud the Government by aiding...
Sighed Miss Druce: "The Germans are a lot better gentlemen than some of the boys around Owosso...