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...year-old Brucie will show no more, "except where he never has been shown before." >Dimpled Mary Rose Thacker, 18, of Winnipeg: the biennial North American ladies' figure skating championship; for the second successive time; by a wide margin over Toronto's Eleanor O'Meara and Norah McCarthy, who placed second and third respectively; on the blue ice of blue-blooded Philadelphia's Skating Club and Humane Society. Only one American placed among the first five: U. S. Champion Jane Vaughn, fourth. In the men's singles, the judges' complicated scoring awarded the title...
...Author Norah Lofts is a pretty girl from Norfolk, England. In Colin Lowrie (Knopf, $2.50), she puts herself into the person of a handsome man from Crosslochie, Scotland, sets out with him to escape the Jacobite disorders of 1745, falls into slavery in the West Indies, escapes again to become a planter in Virginia, there lures a nun from a convent and is wooed by an aggressive woman. All this she does with spirit, conviction and excitement...
REQUIEM FOR IDOLS-Norah Lofts- Knopf...
Inconsequential performance below the level of Norah Lofts's best work; the story of an English girl who makes a fortune writing popular songs, buys the old family house, gets her sisters home for a sentimental reunion, finds them all drifting their own ways as distant as ever...
...horror of being either priggish or sentimental. They call me sentimental in my books, but I'm not really." Says Clive: "Me! Oh, I'm just a rather affectionate sort of ass." Author Deeping can be alarmingly severe with people he doesn't like, such as Norah, Rosamund's older sister: "Sallow and strenuous and masterful, given to sudden splurges of coarse laughter, and concealing beneath her thick white skin surges of strongly scented sex." But wistfulness predominates: "How few books were utterly inevitable, perhaps half a score in the course of a century. This business...