Word: moons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Washington. After giving more butterfat in her milk than any other cow in U.S. history, Carnation Homestead Daisy Madcap, a moon-eyed Holstein belonging to the Carnation Co., was crowned "Queen of All Cows." At Daisy's coronation, Carnation Director G. S. Bulkley pronounced the eulogy: "To the dairy cow: protector of our natural health and wealth, fountain of youth of this modern day. To the dairy cow: our slave, our friend, our foster mother. Thank God for the dairy...
Cavalcade of America (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). Montgomery Clift in The Metal of the Moon...
...Young May Moon, by P. H. Newby. Adolescent sorrow in a quietly effective novel by a talented Englishman (TIME...
...Uncle Adrian? The Young May Moon is the story of a 15-year-old boy's unhappiness when his mother dies and his father temporarily deserts him. For young Philip Rice, the death of his mother is a matter of simple grief. For his father, Alec Rice, the death has another aspect: he feels inner relief at being free of a "dictator who rarely raised her voice and never threw a saucepan." Alec chucks his truck driving, drifts off on a holiday after shipping Philip to his Uncle Adrian, a baker in Wales...
...best thing about The Young May Moon is that Novelist Newby, like fellow English Novelists Henry Green and William Sansom, writes about his people with fraternal warmth and no condescension. Unlike those "proletarian" and naturalist novelists who are so shaken with mission that they make their workers or sharecroppers into faceless morons, Newby knows that a truck driver can be a man of sensitivity and a baker a man of imagination...