Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lawrenceville School in New Jersey had double winners: Donald M. Ehrman, now a clinical psychologist in Palo Alto, Calif., and Malcolm S. Forbes, who later published two Ohio newspapers, became associate publisher of the B. C. Forbes & Sons Publish ing Co., N.Y., New Jersey state senator, and in 1953 unsuccessful...
RAINBOW ON THE ROAD (343 pp.)-Esther Forbes - Houghton Mifflin ($3.75).
Esther Forbes has spent her writing career (28 years, eleven books) spading up the New England past. One of her books (Paul Revere and The World He Lived In) took the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in history; another (The Running of the Tide) won the 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $150,000...
Rainbow on the Road's fatter dividends are paid in local types (traveling songsmiths, drovers, eccentrics) and local talk ("She was plump as a little pig. active as sin, awkward as a calf, and not much more legs on her than a pigeon"). Best of all are Author Forbes...
In his Sacramento bungalow. Forbes starts each day by feeding the birds from his kitchen window. Then he heads for the foundation office, or plans another whirl about the country to spread the foundation's gospel of opening wide the doors of nature to children ("Did you ever see...