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...MINA COSTIN...
LETTERS OF MARCEL PROUST (462 pp.)-Translated and edited by Mina Curtiss-Random House...
Past, he also left a voluminous correspondence. Now, after more than a quarter of a century, Mina Curtiss' selection of his letters (which the onetime Smith College associate professor has translated herself) makes most of them available in English for the first time...
...Died. Mina Miller Edison, 82, widow (second wife) of Thomas A. Edison; of a heart ailment; in Manhattan. She was a noted supporter of the G.O.P. (but not during Democratic son Charles Edison's successful campaign for governor of New Jersey), of the Chautauqua Institution (cofounder: her father, Lewis Miller), and of the temperance movement...
...Mina's reception over, the Aleman caravan set out again in the midday glare, the candidate's black Cadillac sedan at its head. When the procession reached the end of the International Highway's hard surface, construction gangs served mezcal, drunk with maguey worm salt. Thereafter the road became a mule path that dipped into canyon beds, clung to mountainsides. The sun grew hotter, the dust thicker; passengers climbed out to lighten loads. In streams-shallow at the dry season-drivers parked to cool their tires...