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Please never again dignify in print Jane Russell's flippant and too earthy observations concerning God: "He's a Livin' Doll" [TIME, June 28]. It is the most tasteless comment, theological or otherwise, that I have ever heard...
...Heap O' Livin'. In Hartford, Conn., Salesman John Holmes, advertising in the Courant, offered to sell ". . . 40 acres of Pin Oaks and Black snakes. Old-world charm includes sagging floors, tortuous stairway and draughty fireplaces . . . Dandy opportunity to toughen up wife and kiddies ..." reported several nibbles the first...
...marriage quite early. People did get married, of course, but it wasn't really necessary. Bambi, for example, lived a very good life indeed until a fanatical, strait-laced white lady persuaded him to marry one of his women. Until then, as Boy Blue related: "He wus livin' with Bots an' Bambina both all two at the same time, for a long, long time. An' they all had children for him. Bots had Puss in Boots Number Two an' Suck Me Toe, an' Bambina had three. Sugar Shine, Turtle Dove, an' Stumps...
...philosophy by saying that "everything I ve ever wanted has been given me-so naturally I'm optimistic." With the help of his brother, a printer, Guest personally published his first three books of verse Encouraged by their modest sale, he submitted the fourth, A Heap o' Livin', to both Harper and Doubleday. Both turned it down and the book was eventually brought out by Reilly & Lee, the Chicago house that has issued all 22 of his subsequent books. A Heap o' Livin' sold more than half a million copies, and so deeply moved certain...
Firmly fixed among the few comfortable absolutes of the 20th Century are such situations, all grown from the plots and protagonists of Zane Grey's novels. For some' 45 years Author Grey has been demonstrating that yellow-bellied villains die violently and that silent, clean-livin' cowboy heroes ride on forever with the virtuous western (or reformed eastern) girls of their choice...