Word: gowan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...throttling a six-month-old infant to death in its crib. Nancy is a Negro ex-prostitute, but her crime is a mere postscript to the horror-gorged life of her mistress, the dead child's mother, who is enslaved to the devil in the flesh. Mrs. Gowan Stevens was formerly Temple Drake, society-girl heroine of Faulkner's novel Sanctuary, to which Requiem for a Nun is a sequel. While the law has dealt with Nancy, it is the Furies of the past that hound Temple Drake...
...litany of lust and degradation. Eight years before, Temple had been kidnaped by a spiderish hoodlum named Popeye, kept six weeks in a Memphis brothel, and ''loved it." ("Nun" is a 19th century word for whore.) A year later Temple married the slack-spined Virginia gentleman, Gowan Stevens, who had been too drunk at the time of the kidnaping to protect her. It is only when Temple proposes to relive the bad old days with an ex-lover's younger brother that Nancy pleads with her to break the cycle of evil for the sake...
...role of Temple Drake, expressly written for her by Faulkner, Ruth Ford is altogether memorable. She flicks out her lines with an invisible riding crop, aristocratic in disdain, febrile in sexuality, empty-eyed at the soul's abyss. Scott McKay plays husband Gowan with just the right blend of weak will and good intention. And Bertice Reading's Nancy is a mixture of smoldering dignity and rock-like faith...
Died. Boatswain William H. Gowan, 72, 35-year Navyman who retired in 1942, one of the rare peacetime winners of the Medal of Honor, for "extraordinary heroism displayed by him during a conflagration [in a ship of the U.S. Navy] in Coquimbo, Chile, 20 January 1909"; of a heart attack, without friends, family or funeral expenses; in Brooklyn...
Since they regarded the money as personal gifts, six of the eight paid no income taxes on the amounts. Those who paid: O'Donne.l and McGowan. Lawyer Mc-Gowan said this week that his payment was not to be regarded "as a legal opinion" that the others owed a tax on their gifts. The point is a ticklish one, since Stevenson first explained the payments as additional compensation for services to the state. If the money is for services, it is taxable; if it is a gift, it is not taxable...