Word: fenwicks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Sir (Norman Fenwick) Warren Fisher, 69, Britain's retired Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service (1919-39); in London. Fisher was criticized for being an unconventional administrator, but he helped to modernize Britain's civil service...
...LONG WING (246 pp.)-Elizabeth Fenwick-Rlnehart...
...modest, sometimes wan little book, The Long Wing is unlikely to cause much ruckus in the lending libraries, but it is as able a first novel as the season has shown thus far. Author Elizabeth Fenwick, a slim, soft-spoken girl of 26, was born in St. Louis; her marriage in 1941 to a French instructor at Cornell barely outlasted the war. She now lives alone in a basement apartment near the Cornell campus, writing a second novel of family life. Says she: "Families fascinate me, probably because I've never had any real family life myself...
...Fenwick family carries out the theme of Novelist Allen's title: that the U.S. was founded neither by revolution aries nor social reorganizers, but by "the disinherited" in a continent where "for the first time in memorized history man was free to act entirely on his own responsibility...
Always Vengeful, Sometimes Crazy. For the Fenwicks were "physically alive in a world in which they did not legally exist." One of their ancestors lost his head to King William for the political crime of losing his heart to King James. Parliament outlawed the rest of the clan. So disinherited Captain Jack Fenwick prowled the Pennsylvania frontier in 1764, soon became a legend. Tall, springy, savage, he became one of those Indian fighters who were as necessary to the colonists as corn. Captain Jack was always vengeful and sometimes a little crazy. For he remembered the night when...