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...ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. With rich, wry Southern recall, Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill) retraces a family's oddball odyssey from post-Civil War Tennessee to East Texas and down to the Mexican border, marking every mile with fond and funny bouquets...
Count to a Million. As graves are weeded and headstones set straight under the fond patriarchal eye of Grandfather Sam Ordway, the dead begin to seem nearly as quick as the living, and reminiscences have the soft, nostalgic sheen of loved stories often told. Author Humphrey deftly weaves them into a leisurely ramble through Southern history and Texas geography, with stops along the way for circuses and barbecues, political rallies and small-town jails, courting scenes and courtroom dramas, jokes, pranks and tall tales...
Wisconsin's freshman Democratic Representative John A. Race, 50, made it picture-window clear that he has no conflict-of-interest problems. His statement of assets: 1961 Chevrolet, $1,000; home in Fond du Lac, $7,200 (minus a $6,000 mortgage); cash, $500. In fact, since he quit his $125-a-week machinist's job to campaign in July, he, his wife and daughter "have been eating bean soup and peanut-butter sandwiches"; and he borrowed $1,750 from his campaign fund, and $1,500 from the bank to tide him over until he could start collecting...
Last year Mrs. Power decided that 'local folks were getting overly fond of a 15-minute Sunday show sponsored by the American Conservative Club. Writing in the league's local bulletin, Mrs. Power declared: "The Dan Smoot TV program, literally right out of Dallas, Texas, is a skillful professional job of propaganda against-against the United Nations, against all foreign aid, against the income tax, against civil rights for the Negro. It is based on slanted information, half-truths, innuendoes, and sometimes worse...
Dogs on the Roof. Straus is fond of saying that "Macy's operates like a family"-and the store is certainly an informal, self-contained community. Among its 11,000 full-time employees are 4,828 modestly paid ($84.84 a week) salespeople, including 1,400 who can interpret in 42 languages, and 150 telephone operators who write 1,000,000 orders a year. Macy's also has a private police force big enough to protect a city the size of Des Moines; it is captained by an ex-FBI agent, who presides over an array of secret photoelectric...