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...second half of Quivering Earth. Jesse and Keeta wind up in a boom town, and in final chapters as lurid and contrived as the first are lyrical and artless, Jesse finds his long-lost children and the woman who bore them, while Keeta gets herself just about the nicest man in Florida. Its last part reads as though some publishing expert finally explained to Author Russ what it takes to get a book published these days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Swamp Idyll | 3/17/1952 | See Source »

...President Perón," said Bruce,* now back at his old job as vice-president of the National Dairy Products Corporation, "is one of the nicest fellows I've ever met in my life. Perón admitted he didn't like some of his political associates. He said he couldn't choose them." As for the President's lady: "Señora Perón is a person of great beauty and great charm. She is a wonderful dinner companion . . . a great speaker and a great rabble-rouser...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Nice People | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...came to read Tristram Shandy-which I did not enjoy. So I returned . . . to G. B. Stern and for 15 years she's been my favorite authoress. Once I had lunch with her at Albany, Piccadilly. It was a slap-up meal with the nicest steak I've ever eaten...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: View from the Gutter | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...stalking-horse for men. Beulah had never known that love could mean happiness. For her it was only the assortment of men-big or little, decent or nasty-that her mother picked up. But nevertheless she thought her mother was kind: "For one thing, she only turned the nicest ones over to me, the businessmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Crime of Passion | 7/3/1950 | See Source »

...Harries-and, along with her, Author Sinclair's happy new vein-is best summed up in one of Pam's nicest remarks: "She writes letters to the newspapers and to important persons and tells them what they are doing that is wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Parody in Pink | 5/8/1950 | See Source »

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