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...village; some gruesome close-ups (on both sides) of rape, looting, calm and frantic murder; a soldier trying on some fancy drawers he stole for his wife, catching his big toe in the lace; peasants shyly examining a bullet-pocked plane as it exhales its metal odors in a meadow; a lame, derelict Cossack bandit dancing with his longer leg in a hole; Gregor's dead father, with warlice sheeting his face...
...days later, at New York's Fresh Meadow Country Club, Ruth beat Cobb on the 19th hole. Even-Stephen, they now have both golf and baseball fans arguing...
Died. Elizabeth Madox Roberts, 55, Kentucky poet and novelist whose grave, searching stories of her mountain people (The Time of Man, Black is my True-love's Hair, Song in the Meadow) were told with a dignity of language that made her one of America's most distinguished women writers; of anemia; in Orlando...
Since 1932 Elizabeth Madox Roberts (The Time of Man, The Great Meadow) has published two novels, a book of verse, no short stories until this week. Not by Strange Gods is a set of six. They concern themselves 80% with sensitive females, 100% with Kentucky...
President of the Grolier Club is tall, forthright, weathered Harry Twyford Peters, who "works for a living" as a coal merchant, but whose real business is more varied. He is 1) co-Master of the Meadow Brook Hounds, one of the foremost U. S. hunt clubs; 2) leading U. S. authority on fox hunting, author of Just Hunting (1936); 3) inspirer of the national enthusiasm for Currier & Ives, owner of some 15,000 of their prints, author of four scholarly tomes on antique U. S. lithographs; 4) owner of perhaps the world's best private library of sporting books...