Word: humphrey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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HOME FROM THE HILL (312 pp.)-William Humphrey-Knopf...
...Within a fortnight after he had begun to campaign openly for the Ohio Republican nomination for governor, ex-Senator George Bender, now an aide in the Department of the Interior, abruptly bowed out. Behind-the-scenes reason: ex-Treasury Secretary George Humphrey, now board chairman of National Steel and the man with a firm grip on Ohio G.O.P. purse-strings, told Bender that the party was reasonablysatisfied with Republican Incumbent C. William O'Neill, could not standa bitter primary fight...
Sooner or later the genuine novelist discovers that his bread and butter depends on the quiet desperations that lie imbedded in the lives of most men and women. How he handles them is one measure of his worth. Texas-born William Humphrey, 33, has learned his lesson early. Alongside a fine book of short stories (The Last Husband and Other Stories), he can now place a first novel that shows how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Home from the Hill tells a story that will be largely familiar to every small-towner. What takes it well beyond village gossip...
...loves is kept away from him by her prudish father. Gradually Theron learns or senses nearly everything that has poisoned the lives of his parents, and Home from the Hill becomes a sad record of innocent youth brutally awakened to the fears, hatreds and frustrations of adult life. Novelist Humphrey is honest: the seeds of tragedy having been sown early, the crop is tragic throughout. The Hunnicutt story ends in disaster and violence...
Sens. McClellan (D-Ark.) and Humphrey (D-Minn.) announced they would introduce a bill establishing a department of science and technology under a secretary who would direct the government's civilian science activities...