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Dayton Place? Entitled A Family Album, it opens with an ancestral chart that looks at first glance like the Stuart family tree, minus the bar sinister. Before running off the page, it traces Lyndon's lineage back to his paternal great-great-great-great-grandmother, Sukey Johnson, whose date and place of birth are apparently unrecorded. Dozens of family photographs portray L.B.J.'s sturdy forebears, from Father Sam, looking astonishingly like L.B.J. on a bad day, to Maternal Great-Grandfather George Washington Baines Sr., a fire-breathing Baptist preacher who was president of Baylor University and the deadliest...
...builder." To costume Du Luth, Lipchitz picked up clues wherever he could, garbed his figure in an Indian jacket, and placed a plumed hat atop his long curled peruke (two such wigs are known to have belonged to Du Luth). The result, conceived as a mythical hero (see opposite page), will be unveiled this week on the Duluth campus of the University of Minnesota. Possessing both the dignity of a daydream Rodin and the robust romance of a Disneyesque giant, it is an unconventional monument by the unconventional Lipchitz...
...schooling in Louisiana convents, went on to work for newspapers in New Orleans and New York. She was 29 before she published her first story and 36 before her first book of stories (Flowering Judas) came out. One of the tales, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, is a ten-page masterpiece. Its setting is the Texas farm, the great good place in which all her best writing is rooted; and the Granny of the title is the author's first representation of her own grandmother, a character that develops from tale to tale until it becomes the richest...
...Hate Love." Having at last dug up her creative capital, Author Porter disbursed it with incredible stinginess. She spent the next nine years making notes for three 50-page stories and then dashed them off in a mere three weeks. In these stories the reader becomes aware for the first time that something had gone seriously awry in the author's life. In Old Mortality, the story of her own emergence from anxious adolescence into worried womanhood, she describes for the first time the emotion that dominates her later work: misanthropy. "She would have no more bonds that smothered...
With their Avco 1790 computer humming through thousands of responses on a quiet street in Wilmington, Tarr, Crump, and Ginsburg seem anxious to get on to other things. For instance, there are the 200 page movie script and 30 capsule plots for a T.V. situation comedy that Crump's roommate, John P. Bochner '66, has written on the match theme. Ginsburg is Bochner's agent, and he is now trying to get both the movie and the T.V. series produced. From the "fabulous contacts". Tarr says were established throughout the country this summer, the corporation is beginning to inundate...