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Selma, a schoolteacher, is almost 30 and so hungry for a husband that she breaks the boardinghouse rules and is caught reading the funnies to mousy Mr. Ingham-in Mr. Ingham's bed. But before Selma can say "I do," the landlady, who is 25 years mate-hungrier than the schoolteacher, baits her own sex lines and reels in the poor bachelor. And so it goes. Though his bawdy and sole theme is sex, Author Caldwell tells his tales with an easy colloquial style and the born storyteller's gift of making the reader want to know what...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hillbilly Peyton Place | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Died. Colonel Joseph Ingham Greene, 55, editor and general manager of the Army's unofficial trade publication, Combat Forces Journal (circ. 29,400), and its predecessor, Infantry Journal; of a heart attack; in Newark...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 6, 1953 | 7/6/1953 | See Source »

...Years of Work. At 5 o'clock Friday afternoon. Clement Attlee «went to Buck-.ingham Palace to hand King George VI his resignation as Prime Minister. His three-week. Truman-style tour through the provinces had left him pale and exhausted. Three nights before, he had made his last campaign speech in Waltham-stow and sat on the platform afterwards with head in hand, too beaten to do more than stare in mild astonishment as a rabble-rousing platform mate ranted about "millions in America who can't afford to buy butter." Election night he went...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: This Last Prize | 11/5/1951 | See Source »

Probable Adams starting lineup: le, Reilly; lt, Nosek; lg, Turner; c, Ingham; rg, Rogers; rt, Domenie; re, Phypers; qb, Andrews; lh, Lukeman; rh, Webb; fb, Davis...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Football Teams Face Yale College Squads Today | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

Probable Kirkland starting lineup: lo, Samoileff; lt, Ingham; ig, Thompson; c, Voriacas; rg, Zukoski; rt, Holmes; re, Eaton; qb, French; lh, Nolan; rh, Larkin or Robbings; fb, Lamb. Winthrop vs. Davenport...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: House Football Teams Face Yale College Squads Today | 11/18/1949 | See Source »

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