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...Ozark hills, near Vienna, Mo., a carpenter named Henry Westerman was killed by a delayed reaction from a hen's egg. Nineteen years ago a 12-year-old girl named Edna Adkins wrote her name and address on it with a pencil. The egg was sold, shipped to St. Louis, served hard boiled in a restaurant. Westerman got it, read it, ate it. Charmed, he looked up Edna, courted and married her. They had five children, the oldest of whom was a boy named Gene. Last week, because Edna had decided she liked Neighbor Ben French better than...
...seven hours a day reading to him; his wife takes over in the evening. He conscientiously keeps up with plays and books which have a chance for Pulitzer Prizes. Sixteen weeks of the year he spends in a rented cottage at Bar Harbor, Me., duck-hunting in the Ozarks or fishing in Quebec -but keeps in telephone contact with his editors, and peppers them with yellow memos. Blind in one eye, and able to see only silhouettes with the other, he shoots only when a duck is outlined in the sky, fishes, like anybody else, by waiting...
...HIGH ROAD-Frances Grinstead -Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Rove Carruthers would rather dream great deeds than do them. Aged 16 and a man by Ozark standards, he loves Jubilee, hates go-getting, hardworking Abner Holly. But even Jubilee grows impatient with Rove when he neglects his new farm because he has heard the call to preach. The story of how Rove finally wins over Jubilee by driving Abner to the sinners' bench at pistol point is a slight but colorful description of Ozark manners, with humor and charm for the sympathetic reader...
Unlike some Ozark preachers, Howard never whipped his listeners into frenzied praying and testimony. He spoke gently of redemption, taught that Christianity is greater than any single church, that its great message is brotherly love and service...
Preacher Howard has baptized hundreds of Ozark people. One of his strangest converts was an old granny. The blind old woman summoned him to her cabin, said: "From what I heerd about ye, preacher, I reckon I kin trust ye ter keep a secret. Hit's always been a deep sorrer in my life, I kin tell ye. My own children don't know and nobody else here knows. But, preacher, I feel I ain't much longer fer this world and I jist gotta confess hit ter somebody...