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...HELEN LESCISIN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

After delivering a dedication address at the New Jersey Turnpike's Holland Tunnel-Newark extension, New Jersey's bachelor Governor Robert B. Meyner, 48, was asked, "Does this road lead to matrimony?" With his pretty guest, Helen Stevenson, a distant cousin of Adlai E. Stevenson, standing a few feet away, Meyner gazed down the broad $120 million turnpike extension and murmured, "I don't see any signs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 24, 1956 | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...SUCCESS (370 pp.)-Helen Howe-Simon & Schuster...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand Wife | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

What John Marquand has done for the ambitious Harvardman in rebellion against his New England background, Boston-born-and-bred Helen Howe* sets out to do for the Harvardman's ambitious wife...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand Wife | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

...like each of Marquand's heroes. Helen Howe's heroine discovers (surprise!) that success is not enough. Her husband comes home from the war dreaming of a Japanese mistress. Her daughter turns from Maggie to a tweedy aunt and the earthy delights of raising sheep dogs. An old school chum, who had stayed home all these years having babies, gains fame as a poet. Alone and unanchored. Maggie would like to believe she is simply paying the price for having lived too hard, "but fear gripped her suddenly that she had not lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Marquand Wife | 9/24/1956 | See Source »

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