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...trilogy novels, Herself Surprised, To Be a Pilgrim and The Horse's Mouth (TIME, Sept. 20, 1948 et seq.). In these books Gary shows himself a master of the novelist's true business: creating characters who stick in the memory. No one who has once met that latter-day Moll Flanders, Sara Monday, and that loudmouthed old horsethief and painter, Gulley Jimson, is likely to forget them...
...time when ceilings might become necessary, he established one new agency: a somewhat shadowy Economic Stabilization Agency which would "guide our voluntary efforts," move in with selective controls on presidential order. Under ESA's administrator would be a Director of Price Stabilization (who might become a sort of latter-day Chester Bowles) and a Wage Stabilization Board made up of representatives of labor, management and the public (a latter-day War Labor Board...
Last week 59-year-old Composer Prokofiev announced a new work for children: an oratorio called Guarding Peace, for children's voices, mixed chorus, soloists and orchestra, with text by Children's Poet Samuel Marshak. In the new work, his latter-day Peter comes across a new species of wolf: "The sinister, evil voices of the warmongers and Wall Street merchants on their way to Korea, carrying hundreds of thousands of death-dealing bombs." Guarding's enthusiastic conclusion : "The children's best friend and protector lives in the Kremlin...
Died. George Franklin Richards, 89, senior member of the Council of Twelve Apostles of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons); in Salt Lake City...
...from the first plans drawn by George Selden of Rochester (1877), the first model of the Duryea brothers (1893), the water-cooled engine (1895), the steering wheel (1900), the windshield (1905), the left-hand drive (1909), the enclosed body (1911), the electric self-starter (1912), right down to such latter-day innovations as freewheeling (1930) and automatic transmission (1940s...