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...Ridiculous. Editor Neider's eye-racking job was complicated by the fact that many passages scattered throughout the fading ledger had been deleted-crossed out by a modern pen using blue ink, probably after Fanny's death in 1914. Under the probing rays, the suppressed passages turned out, in the main, to be hasty bursts of irritation over petty matters, which Fanny would no doubt have scratched out herself, had it occurred to her that anyone might ever want to print her diary. Despite such outbursts, this is a happy-souled and sometimes uproarious book. It belongs...
...millions of U.S. families learned to rule their lives by the household budget, religiously parceling out set amounts for all needs, from mortgage payments to shoe-shines. Many families divided their income into envelopes firmly labeled Rent, Food, Electricity, etc.; others made ends meet by keeping a strict household ledger of every penny earned, every penny spent. But as the U.S. economy burgeoned, the rigid family budget began to die out. In the midst of prosperous 1955, a manager of Home Life Insurance Co. estimates that only one of 200 families keeps a detailed day-by-day ledger. Says...
...custom decrees that freshmen Congressmen during their first months in office are better seen than heard. Neophyte British M.P.s, on the other hand, are expected to create something of a stir when they rise to make their maiden speech in Parliament. Last week 34-year-old Ron Ledger, newly elected Labor Member for Romford, devoted his maiden speech to a plea for more free nurseries. To give his argument force, he told the story of a certain renegade father and of a mother, pregnant and destitute, who was forced to abandon her three children to the care of an orphanage...
...Ledger's maiden speech, with his picture alongside, got big play in London newspapers. Before the week was out, Mrs. Iris Diplock, wife of an electrician near the Old Kent Road, had stepped forward to claim Ron as a brother, as had William Ledger, a baker of Tadworth, and Joan, a sister he had never known. "It's been astounding," said M.P. Ledger at week's end. "I have already discovered eight new nephews and nieces, not to mention a brother and two sisters...
...Other Pulitzer Prizes in journalism: for disinterested and meritorious public service, the Columbus (Ga.) Ledger and Ledger-Enquirer, for its attack on corruption in Alabama's Phenix City (TIME, June 28): for international reporting, the New York Times's longtime (five years) Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury, for his series written after returning home, "Russia Re-Viewed" (TIME, Oct. 4); for local reporting where deadline pressure was not a factor, Roland Kenneth Towery of the Cuero (Texas) Record, for his series on Texas land scandals (TIME, March 7); for local reporting under deadline pressure, Mrs. Caro Brown...