Word: gaither
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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DOUBLE MUSCADINE (335 pp.)-Frances Gaither-Macmlllan...
...Book-of-the-Month Club, which picked Mississippi-raised Frances Gaither's novel as its March selection, can reasonably expect that thousands of readers will plug right along until they find out whether the yellow girl gets off or not. Before they get through, however, a good many who order this one will understand the words of Kirk's plain-spoken sister-in-law: "There ain't a mite of use of dodging pain. [God will] hand you the cup, and then you got to dreen...
...First Mrs. Fraser (by St. John Ervine; produced by Gant Gaither), which tackles the problems of British divorce in the '20s, probably wasn't meant to hold up after 17 years. In any case, it hasn't. A drawing-room piece about a middle-aged woman (Jane. Cowl) who lets her husband (Henry Daniell) marry a self-seeking young girl and then gets him back again, it follows a familiar pattern, makes use of familiar patter. It has no glaring faults; it is just so tame and predictable as to be generally dull...
...known as 'Little Gaither the Money Waster and Woman Chaser.' I thought I was a big shot. Two or three grands on me at all times...
...Cook County jail one day last week, Ernie Gaither, 23, a Negro who had killed a man in a holdup, laboriously began to write...