Word: fla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Near Maxville, Fla., the Seaboard Air Line Railroad's northbound Orange Blossom Special hit a split rail with a speed that sent six sleepers and the diner skidding on their streamlined sides. Reason: bad maintenance. Injured...
MARJORIE KINNAN RAWLINGS Hawthorn, Fla...
Elsewhere in this first novel by 21-year-old Peggy Bennett of Apalachicola, Fla. there is still more hair-raising prose. The story, probably more or less autobiographical, is that of three children (the varmints) who grow up on the wrong side of the tracks in a town like Apalachicola. Author Bennett describes their environment sympathetically, and now & then probes their moods with humor and delicate skill. But more often she assaults her readers with rhetoric ("0 God, what jubilance, exuberance, terror and pain"), plagues them with questions ("What is love? . . . What are you, Pivot?"), emotes, postures, harangues...
...Eastern Airlines DC-3 in Detroit, felt as air passengers usually feel-partly like a piece of baggage, partly like a lonely soul. As the plane stopped at Cleveland and Akron, the seats filled up around him. Dozing, thinking of his vacation-to-come at home in Boynton, Fla., he scarcely watched as the plane lifted over the Alleghenies and dropped down toward the Carolinas...
...West, Fla...