Word: notes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After 21 hours, a search plane sighted them, dropped a note to a boat, which picked them up. Mother Lillian Rich was given up for dead. But next day a helicopter spotted her, cut and bone weary, back near the confluence, picked her up by landing in a nearby clearing. Search parties later retrieved the hull of the Rich boat, its motor, top and windshield gone. Gone, too, was Frank Rich. His son, Del, could not forgive himself. "It was my fault, my fault," he mumbled over and over, staring out at the river...
...came last week. Howard Dorsey, president of KFMA in Davenport, Iowa, had offered Bandy a new job at what the disk jockey understood to be $250 a week (his old salary: $100). Bandy arrived at his new headquarters, found a note waiting for him: "Welcome to KFMA. We hope you like your salary." Enclosed was a check...
...dowagers, by doctors and factory workers, by labor unions and clergymen. No amount is too large (many investors put in upwards of $250,000) or too small. A Maine farmer sent $5 "from the chickens I sold" to one fund, later followed it with a bigger check and a note explaining "These are my hogs"; by the time he had gone through his barnyard, he had invested $6,500, which has leaped in value to $14,000. Big investors also flock to the funds: such schools as Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Oklahoma, and Texas Christian University have...
...note to his publisher, the writer of this ironic romance observes that "I guess I'm the least known author of my ability in America." The titles of some of his previous books (Gestalt Therapy, Art and Social Nature) suggest why. But in this novel, Author Goodman shows an impressive gift for fiction. His prose is strong-flavored and exact, his comedy is caustic. Still, for all its humor, The Empire City bulges like a diplodocus. The first of its four overlong, sometimes aimless books was begun in 1939, and Goodman says he may yet write another volume...
...timid wife, who runs "to serve him with quick, fluttering movements like those of a frightened hen"; in The Sinner, a lifetime of hard work and small returns explodes in passion when a sharecropper runs off with another woman, then humbly comes home when his wife sends him a note saying: "God forgive me ... if I should judge you." These stories were originally published in 1925, and the problem of white and black that is currently convulsing South Africa is touched on in only one; grimly and perhaps prophetically, Ludo-vitje describes an African native as the only man strong...