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NORMAN ROCKWELL'S AMERICA by Christopher Finch. 313 pages. Abrams. $29.95. Rockwell's forte was home-town America, the sort of country that people still draw in their hearts. Here are his best, including every one of his Saturday Evening Post covers. The section on soldiers' goings and homecomings recalls the days when wars seemed just, and how proud and fine it was to welcome home the boys-become-men who fought them. The 1960s are reflected in some trenchant paintings, among them an indelible portrait of a little black girl on her way to an integrated...
...Home-town Girls...
...deal indeed, at least in the opinion of Thomas Austin Preston Jr., a.k.a. Amorillo Slim, 46. Preston, who parlayed his 1972 victory in Las Vegas' World Series of Poker into a tour of TV talk shows and a movie role in California Split, was arrested by his home-town police in Amarillo, Texas, last week. Charged with felonious bookmaking on football games, the lanky, slow-talking gambler drew a short stay in Potter County jail before his release on $25,000 bail. "I was at the wrong place at the wrong time," complained Preston later, adding that he would...
Caught between some of Chicago's most colorful denizens and some of philosophy's most challenging questions, Citrine often seems as if he were becoming a hybrid of two other famous home-town boys: Robert Hutchins and Nelson Algren. His real confusion, however, grows out of a bad conscience about the death of an old friend...
...eyes were black and fierce below the camouflage of little-girl bangs. They seemed curiously separate-not quite a matching pair. By the age of 13 she had reached a height of 5 ft. 8½ in., and lest the home-town folks of Columbus, Ga., think she was one of them, Lula Carson (as she was baptized) wore knee socks and tennis shoes while the other Southern teenie-belles were wearing heels. The opening lines of Carson McCullers' most famous work, The Member of the Wedding, can be read as her epitaph: "She belonged to no club...