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...RITA MAE BROWN loves Mark Twain. She says he was American to the marrow, like herself. Somehow Mark Twain's Americanness is more comfortable than Rita Mae Brown's. Back in the 19th century, there was still room for innocence. Now it's a little harder to come by, and most of our attempts take the form of "The Waltons"--self-congratulatory and insipid. Molly Bolt of Rubyfruit Jungle, Brown's previous book, came close. But in Six of One, Brown tackles a much more serious task. Rubyfruit Jungle was a sad-funny autobiographical sketch of a young lesbian growing...
...mansion on the hill. Cora is her lifetime friend and servant. Julia and Louise are Cora's daughters, eternally at each other's throats and occasionally remembering they love each other. Julia, we eventually learn, is the mother of the narrator, a young bisexual writer. Evidently Rita Mae has now decided men are all right...
...Mae West for the Bollworm...
...using sex against bugs [May 22], scientists, I think, underestimate the female's cleverness. I am sure that the bollworms will pretty soon skip sex pheromones and will develop looks like Cheryl Tiegs or dress up like Mae West to lure back the cheated males...
...this seemed a mite histrionic to TIME'S Senior Writer Ed Magnuson, who wrote the story in New York. Magnuson has bought half a dozen houses in eight years, all of them among the granite and evergreen hills of New Hampshire. Each time, his wife Mae and a skilled craftsman have fixed up the homestead, to see it sold at a profit. Currently, the Magnusons reside in the town of New London, N.H., in a four-bedroom house for which they paid $59,000 last autumn. The taxes are under $800. Muses Magnuson: "Considering that New Hampshire...