Word: faulkner
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...case of jazz and Faulkner, Europeans pride themselves on having discovered an American art form long before Americans got around to recognizing it. At comics clubs, which have sprung up in France, Italy, Belgium and Switzerland, zealous members pore over antique editions of American comics (old strips now fetch about $50 each), discuss by the hour the imperialism of The Phantom or the anarchism of Li'I Abner...
...loyalty to his pet, the hero slowly learns that his instincts are different from those of his friends. The author is a Down man himself, now living in Wales. Although he is a born nature writer, his real strength is the creation of characters and situations that any Faulkner reader would recognize...
...most part, signatures have little value by themselves. What collectors most want is a letter or other manuscript having a direct bearing on the individual's history-making specialty. Thus a Hemingway letter criticizing Faulkner-with the inclusion of a four-letter word-sold last year for $1,550. On the other hand, some communications from Astronaut John Glenn to a car dealer, which brought $425 in 1962, would have been a much better investment had they been concerned with outer space...
...Warren (1953), Civil Rights Advocate Thurgood Marshall (1955), U.S. Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1957), Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus (1957), Alabama Governor John Patterson (1961), Author James Baldwin (1963), The N.A.A.C.P.'s Roy Wilkins (1963), Alabama Governor George Wallace (1963), Senator Everett Dirksen (1964) and Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner...
...thing makes a bad impression in Columbus, Texas. Soon Georgette and her daughter are alone again, smiling through their tears as the young deputy Mr. Slim (Don Murray) drives them out of town toward The Valley. Of course, evrabody knows where The Valley is. Lies somewhere between lofty Faulkner country and the Foote hills...