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Politics has attracted Mary since her girlhood in Boston ("You heard politics from the time you were five"). She graduated from Boston's Roman Catholic Emmanuel College in 1939 with a B.A. in English ("no honors"), got a job cropping pictures for Houghton Mifflin Co. at $16.50 a week. In 1942 she went to work for the Boston Herald as a secretary, wrote an occasional book review so well that she was hired for the book page of the Star in 1947. Mary liked books (she still does some reviewing), but the city room fascinated...
...Soviet Writers protesting the expulsion of Nobel Prizewinner Boris Pasternak (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; in London. Spinster daughter of a Cambridge don and distant kin to Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dame Rose was raised in Italy, where her mother had been sent for her health. The sunny freedom of a girlhood on the Ligurian coast prepared her for anything but the spiny conventionalities of the traditional education (concluding at Oxford) that followed, giving rise to Rose Macaulay's frequent literary treatment of the struggles of the free spirit against rigid mores. The witty, bloodless, polished writer that emerged...
MEMORIES OF A CATHOLIC GIRLHOOD (245 pp.)-Mary McCarthy-Harcourt Brace...
...when I cannot write a poem, I bake biscuits and feel just as pleased," wrote Anne Morrow Lindbergh lightly in her bestselling Gift from the Sea (TIME, Mar. 21, 1955). But writing poetry has been a serious concern of Mrs. Lindbergh's since her girlhood. "When I was young, I felt so small/And frightened, for the world was tall," ran one of her early verses. The poems of her 303 and 403, collected here for the first time, show that, as she grew out of those girlish fears, she also grew to be courageously at home in the world...
Everyone who knew her had to admire plump, kindly Minnie Mangum of Norfolk, Va. Generous to a fault. Miss Minnie showered her friends with expensive presents and gave openhandedly to charity. What made Minnie's generosity all the more admirable was that since early girlhood she had worked hard to support her invalid mother and blind sister...