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...priceless antiques. The War between the States has just ended. A Yankee brute assaults America's sister, Palestine. America is forced to kill him with a two-foot corn knife. America flees other lady-chasing Yankees along a row of fruit trees. Later she flees lady-killing Fant Annable down a row of tobacco plants. Still later (because of the murdered rapist and to be near Fant) she flees to relatives in Mason County...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...Fant calls her "sorrel top" but tells her frankly that he is "not the marrying kind." Nevertheless, when she wins a horse race for him, he can't resist. In mid-honeymoon in New Orleans, America learns the truth about him: Fant is a gambler and a dastard. For a while she supports him by selling off her trousseau to pleasure women (Fant is fit to die laughing). But Fant kills a fellow gambler, then dives off a sternwheeler. America returns to a Kentucky tobacco farm, gets to work supporting herself, surrounded by some of the richest Scottish, Irish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Books, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

...GLENN E. FANT Thomaston...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 5, 1940 | 2/5/1940 | See Source »

...SESSIONS FANT...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

TIME erred, but the size of Outfielder Hoag's feet is still probably worth the price of at least a League game ticket to Reader Fant. Myril Hoag wears, not size 3½shoes as TIME reported, but size 4 on his right foot, size 4½ on his left. Hoag is 5 ft. 10½in. tall, weighs 175 lb., is famed for his feet, tiniest in the major leagues...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 8, 1937 | 11/8/1937 | See Source »

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