Word: groves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California building firm last week stole a page from auto dealers and announced a novel home-selling plan: trade in the old-model house for a new one. The Liberty Building Co., developers of a 3,500-home tract in what was once a walnut grove in west Pomona, offered to take old houses in trade from anyone who buys one of their new $15,000 houses...
Bishop Waters' first blow against segregation was his order that the two Catholic churches of Newton Grove, N.C., one white, one Negro, merge their congregations last month (TIME, June 8). On none of the four Sundays since the bishop's order have more than 84 of the combined congregation of 440 turned up for Sunday Mass. But the bishop is confident that it is just a question of time...
...ECHOING GROVE (373 pp.)-Rosamond Lehmann-Harcourt, Brace...
...Nietzschean argument holds that an intelligent woman would prefer a 10% stake in a superior man to 100% ownership of an average one. By that test, Madeleine and Dinah, the English sisters and heroines of Rosamond Lehmann's The Echoing Grove, rate low I.Q.s. For they spend the better part of 20 years and 373 pages scrimmaging for a soggy, half-deflated male football named Rickie, and the rest trying to run with him toward the goal post of happiness. Since Rickie develops a debilitating ulcer and dies, neither of the girls makes it. But their tribulations are guaranteed...
Between long bouts of powder-room chitchat. The Echoing Grove commendably attempts to dig below the surface of life, but its well-manicured prose cuts into reality about as deeply as a nail file into California redwood...