Word: lane
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...originally thought of him as one of their own, Hodges has been a particular disappointment. Last week, at the insistence of a powerful California businessman, Hodges' name was pointedly dropped from the invitation list to the big International Industrial Conference in San Francisco. Says President Mills B. Lane of Georgia's Citizens & Southern National Bank: "Businessmen feel they have no real effective voice in the Government...
...book concerns a religious-emotional crisis in the life of Franny Glass, youngest member of the clan, and tells how her brother Zooey argues, browbeats and jollies her out of it. Franny is first seen during a football weekend being met at the station by a young man named Lane Coutell. The train pulls in: "Like so many people who, perhaps, ought to be issued only a very probational pass to meet trains, he tried to empty his face of all expression that might quite simply, perhaps even beautifully, reveal how he felt about the arriving person." This...
...Lane, bored, listens just closely enough to be able to dismiss the whole thing: "I mean I think all those religious experiences have a very obvious psychological background." He is supposedly talking as a realist, but he obviously knows nothing about reality. Franny, on the contrary?weak, overwrought, muttering mysticism ?has about her the luminous common sense and the clear eye for life that mark all the memorable Salinger girls of whatever age, from Phoebe Caulfield on. Eventually Franny faints. When the story first appeared, coed readers, earthy creatures all, ignored Salinger's mysticism and decided that...
...Somewhat less secure than Mauch was General Manager Frank Lane of the American League's cellar-dwelling Kansas City Athletics who was fired last week without notice by Owner Charles O. Finley...
Chicago, Drury Lane Theater: Thornton Wilder's Our Town, with Mr. & Mrs. Pat O'Brien...