Word: midwestern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Gregorio takes the wheel and Hemingway lets himself down to the deck and sits down. His voice has an ordinary sound, but high-pitched for the big frame that produces it. For all his years away from his rootland, he speaks with an unmistakable Midwestern twang. Absentmindedly he rubs a star-shaped scar near his right foot, one of the scars left by the mortar shell which gravely wounded him at Fossalta, Italy, in 1918 when he was a volunteer ambulance driver. Nick Adams, hero of many of Hemingway's short stories, was wounded at approximately the same place...
...King of the Khyber Rifles (TIME, Jan. 11), the hero (Rock Hudson) is a British officer, who in this case has a Midwestern twang to his speech. He affects to defect to the enemy, but only in order to diddle some secrets out of a raja (Arnold Moss) with a slight New York accent. Add to the linguistic confusion a Hindu girl (Ursula Thiess) who has a German accent, and even the children for whom the movie is intended may suspect that the action is not quite faithful to history...
...thoroughfares have unparalleled sweep and grandeur, but-save for Central Park-they lack sufficient stopping places for eye and feet, the attractive squares found everywhere in Paris. Finally, Manhattan can boast no artist thought great around the world (in all the U.S. there is only one of such stature: midwestern Architect Frank Lloyd Wright...
JOHNNY APPLESEED: MAN AND MYTH, by Robert Price (320 pp.; Indiana University; $5). Helped along by poets, folklorists, chambers of commerce and generations of Midwestern grannies, the legend of Johnny Appleseed has lengthened until lots of American kids are as sure as God made little apples that Johnny planted every orchard in the land. In this unassumingly authoritative book. Author Price, who lives in Ohio's Appleseed country, good-humoredly sorts out reluctant fact from ready fancy. Lugging a knapsack with apple seeds into the wilderness about 1800, Massachusetts-born John Chapman for the next 45 years planted...
...couple of expendable Midwestern Republicans also went by the elective boards. Michigan's Representative Kit Clardy, who used to go around Washington muttering about "those Communists in the White House," ran on a platform of "I will vote as I please." Michiganders decided Clardy wouldn't vote at all-at least not in the House. And Illinois' C. W. ("Runt") Bishop was defeated after a 14-year House career marked only by his having been the manager of the Republican House baseball team...