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...Carrollton, Miss. (pop. 475), has, like many Southern writers, a poet's sense of words. Unlike most, she brings a disciplined mind and an invigorating economy to her third novel. Time and again, an imaginative phrase pins a character to the reader's consciousness. Jimmy Tal-lant's lonely face "made you think of telephone poles leaning infinitely on along a highway that went forever toward the mountains." A sub-moronic deputy is "the third best shot at the pool hall"; ig-year-old Cissy was "poised that summer at a moment of femininity so intense that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Trouble at Lacey | 10/22/1956 | See Source »

...Queen Juliana and their two eldest daughters, Prince Bern hard of The Neth erlands careened through a jumping event in London's 30th International Horse Show. After hitting two poles, two gates and a brick wall, he placed fourth from last. Said the prince gallantly of his gal lant mount: "She is a good mare and the faults were mine." Rewards & Returns George Catlett Marshall, a policy maker of some reputation, was elected a director of Pan American Airways Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Hail & Farewell | 8/1/1949 | See Source »

...money and bought race horses. This season he had hard luck: though he owns twelve horses he has won only one race so far. Last week, he was brought up before the racing stewards after a saliva test showed that his one winner had been given a caffeine stimu lant. He was suspended from racing for 60 days. ? Carolyn A., a filly named for her, won last week's $25,000 Firenze Handicap at Jamaica. ** Plus the usual tip, which is 10% of the purse. *Apprentice jockey. The name comes from the asterisk beside a horse's name...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Man on a Horse | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

...fait, Or di ram parts ui uach uer so ga lant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Mar. 1, 1943 | 3/1/1943 | See Source »

...Steel Plant is regarded as "military," Mr. Davies was shown it only from a distance, and in all plants visited the "secret military section" was not shown. Next day, a Soviet "rest day," Mr. Davies saw open hearth furnaces at the Karl Liebknicht Steel Tube Plant, visited Lant Hospital...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RUSSIA: Babbitt Bolsheviks | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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