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Wrong Way Corrigan. Enter Horab Greenbloom, a character so prodigious that he nearly runs away with the book. Horab can only be described in superlatives of wealth, intelligence, vitality and childishness. He drives his Bentley at top speed, depending for guidance on his passengers ("What's that coming up...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Horob's Way | 6/10/1957 | See Source »

(Martine Carol). The major sees no problem at all. "The French," he notes contentedly, "devote to love the care we [British] bring to making tea." His wife, however, experiences a certain tension every time she looks at the head of the water buffalo mounted above their marriage bed, or hears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, may 27, 1957 | 5/27/1957 | See Source »

Mounting Distrust. The break has been swift and thorough. Only a year ago last January the Knight papers ran a glowing verdict by Jack Knight himself on Ike's first term. Wrote he: "The political phenomenon of our times is the almost childlike faith of the people in Eisenhower...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Thunder on the Right | 5/20/1957 | See Source »

The initiation rites begin in a small Mississippi River town in the '30s, with several of the stories pivoting around two youngsters named Jason and Ira Garrett. In Chip Canary, Jason tangles with the town queer woman, Elizabeth Minerva Stretch. She is a monstrous frump, always trundling a baby...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Front Porch Vision | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: South in Ferment | 2/25/1957 | See Source »

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