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...toward an Army camp he collapsed, was found, fought with the doctor who wanted to amputate his foot. Anticipating his death, his fellow-pioneers tried to seize his few possessions. Weaklings could not endure this environment, were left to perish, apparently without regret. "Old Jules's" second wife. Henrietta, went out from Boston to marry him, drawn by artful letters written by Jules's sister. She was revolted by his crudeness, suffered in the miserable leaky shack. When Jules became involved in a feud and was accused of setting fire to a neighbor s grain, Henrietta...
...CHILDHOOD - Henry Handel Richardson - Norton ($2.50). Short stories by Australia's No.1 woman novelist, Henrietta Richardson, including new chapters on the Mahonys (The Fortunes of Richard Mahony...
...WIND-Frieda Lawrence -Viking ($2.50). Until Frieda Lawrence published her testament this week, it must have seemed to her that every Tom, Dick & Harry, Thomasina and Henrietta had had their impertinent say about her late greatly-discussed husband, David Herbert Lawrence. Perhaps it would have been more dignified to keep silence when so many hastened to speak, but Frieda Lawrence has never stood on her dignity. "I did not want to write this book," says she. "I wanted to give Lawrence my silence." Then, with refreshing candor: "Do I want to blow my own trumpet? Yes, I do. . . . I will...
...story weaves its way along the threadbare theme of broken-down Southern aristocracy living on the hard crusts of the past. The Connellys, mother (Henrietta Crosman), son Will (Robert Young ) and Uncle Bob (Lionel Barrymore) occupy Connelly Hall but are so strapped that they can no longer get credit at the country store. A Northerner ("damn blue-bellied Yankee") moves in upon their acres as a tenant farmer, starts an experimental tobacco crop. On his death his daughter Joanna (Janet Gaynor) carries on. Young Will Connelly falls in love with her. Proud old Mrs. Connelly indignantly orders the girl...
...been dissatisfied with the way their first cousin, Robert II, has run the ranch. Most serious of the many charges astute Mr. Fisher has brought are: 1) The trustees have turned the management of the ranch entirely over to Robert II instead of running it themselves as directed by Henrietta Kind's will. 2) He is not temperamentally suited to run it. 3) He lives on a lavish scale and charges his expenses up to operation. 4) The trustees have lent large sums to favored parties, none to the Atwoods. 5 ) They have not kept proper account books. Ostensible...