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...heroine of In a Farther Country is a New York-exiled New Mexican named Marietta McGee-Chavéz. She is Scotch-Irish-Spanish, dreams interminably about the Old World but lives on gloomy West 23rd Street with a shopkeeper named MacDougal. Author Goyen's point is that great emotional disunity results when so many different elements are present, e.g., how can a woman dream about "birds and bells in a romantic musical city" when a guy with a name like MacDougal is trying to climb into bed with her? How can she capture the ravishing spells...
Manhattan's Communist Daily Worker was also forced to eat an expensive diet of crow last week. Four years ago, in its attempt to take over the defense of Negro Rapist Willie McGee and use the case for party propaganda (TIME, May 14, 1951) the Worker printed an "exclusive." It charged that Mrs. Willette Hawkins, the Laurel (Miss.) housewife who accused McGee, had actually "forced an illicit affair on him for more than four years and suddenly shouted rape after the whole town discovered the story." Mrs. Hawkins sued the Worker for $1,000,000. Last week she settled...
Egyptians call it samna, Turks call it Hindistanda kaynatilmis tereyagi, Americans call it rancid butter. Indians call it ghee (as in Fibber McGee), and they love it. They make it by boiling the milk of water buffalo, letting it cool, adding sour milk to make it curdle faster, then straining off the butter oil, which is the ghee. They eat it. spread it on sores, and anoint holy images with...
...KERR-McGEE OIL INDUSTRIES, which bid $15 million for a tract of Government-owned oil lands off the Louisiana coast and then discovered that it had made a mistake in the tract numbers (TIME, Nov. 8, 1954), will not be held to its contract. The Government has accepted the argument that a bid containing an obvious error does not constitute a binding contract, will give the company back its $2,900,000 deposit...
When the mistake was discovered, the first of its kind on record, Kerr-McGee tried to get all bids thrown out. Failing in this, it asked to withdraw its own and get back its $3,000,000. Last week Interior turned the case over to the General Accounting Office for a ruling. But there was a good chance that Kerr-McGee would have to pay the $15 million for the leases it did not want...