Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your exposure in Thursday's paper of the indebtedness of one of our stories to D. H. Lawrence's "The Sun," it came to my attention on Saturday, and I expected to make public in this letter written on Sunday, that in the same issue the story called "Mary Jane and Jerry" contained verbatim extracts from Nancy Hale's "Midsummer," published in the New Yorker. This letter cannot begin to reveal our displeasure and embarrassment at such unethical practices...
...quotations on the left are excerpts from "Mary Jane and Jerry," a story by William Morrison '52 in the December issue of "The Harvard Advocate." Those on the right are from "Mid-Summer," a story by Nancy Hale in "Short Stories from the New Yorker," copyright 1940 by the F-R Publishing Company...
Life with the Roses is one crisis after another, e.g., Jane's acid test as a baby sitter when all the formula bottles break, Jimmy-John's grim efforts to ride a bicycle or hike ten miles for a Boy Scout merit badge. Along the line, thanks to the long-suffering Roses, the problem pair finds understanding, love and finally the security that turns them into normal youngsters...
...foster children, sullen and bitter beyond their years, would be the undoing of any more conventional home. Jane (Iris Mann), 13, is a rejected, distrustful child of divorced parents. The somewhat younger Jimmy-John (Clifford Tatum Jr.) wears braces for a leg deformity which, in setting him apart from other children, has sent him into a chronic bellicose silence...
...Harrison of Harrington Square, he erected a façade of innocuous jobs (publisher's assistant, bookkeeper, language teacher, corset salesman), took on Western airs and a Western wife. She was Ivy Low, radical daughter of an English writer. He came to admire the works of Henry James, Jane Austen, Beethoven and Bach; he took up contract bridge. But Litvinoff remained Bolshevik to the core-a blunt, opportunistic, skeptical revolutionary, with a keen, mousetrap kind of mind that was wired always to orders from home...