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George Raymond Metzger...
Lillian is wondering because she is one of the scores of peculiar characters in Elizabeth Metzger Howard's Before the Sun Goes Down, which earned its author, a Florida housewife, more money than any first novel ever received prior to publication ($20,000 from the Doubleday-Doran Novel Contest, $125,000 from the M-G-M Annual Novel Award). Life is never dull for Lillian, because Willowspring is astir from dawn to dusk with miscegenation, class conflict, drunkenness, antiSemitism, anti-Catholicism and incest...
...lucky author is Mrs. Elizabeth Metzger Howard, 45, wife of a British-born mining engineer. Her novel Before the Sun Goes Down, a story of a Pennsylvania town in the 1880s, will be published early next year-as the winner of both the $20,000 Doubleday, Doran Novel Contest and the $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award. The $145,000 is not the end of Mrs. Howard's windfall. M.G.M. will pay her up to $50,000 more if her book becomes a best-seller -and may offer her a writing contract to boot...
...Nellie" Richardson retaliated with a curt order: hereafter anyone who applies for, issues, serves, or accepts a plea for a writ of habeas corpus will be subject to a $5,000 fine, five years in jail, or both. This "anyone" obviously meant only one man: Judge Metzger, who was also warned to drop the contempt case forthwith...
Legal hairsplitters were placing no bets on Judge Metzger and Hawaii's civil authorities. Historically, habeas corpus has generally been martial law's first casualty...