Word: peyton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...June 1960, to the surprise of her Texas friends, Sarita dropped the three members of the foundation, substituted Brother Leo and two prominent Catholics from the East Coast: Millionaire Layman J. Peter Grace, president of W. R. Grace & Co., and the Rev. Patrick Peyton, C.S.C., head of a prayer-crusading organization called Family Rosary, Inc. Eight months later Sarita died of cancer in a Manhattan hospital; Brother Leo, her constant companion during her last days, was at her bedside...
...Chicago lawyer-turned-poet who had grown up in Petersburg and Lewistown, 111. In Masters' book, 244 small-town dead speak their autobiographical epitaphs in free verse. Spoon River Anthology was the logical forerunner of Winesburg, Ohio, Main Street, and Our Town, as well as such garbage as Peyton Place...
...cute little intimacies that filled the pages of Peyton Place took on a special piquancy via hints that Author Grace Metalious had merely written about her own domestic career up in lustful, hypocritical, murderous New England. The sequels that followed prolonged the speculation; if they weren't written on the kitchen table, how could they be so smeared with jam? Irving Wallace gained a certain respectability by pretending that his fat novels (The Chapman Report, The Prize) were based on research-research that delved into the odd aberrations of sex ual surveyors and Nobel prizewinners. Now both are back...
This time Metalious has foxed rumormongers by creating a cast of characters that couldn't be anybody. She traces the roots of their wretchedness to a neighborhood of Quebec that could have been invented only by a writer eager to fix Canada's wagon for banning Peyton Place. Her point seems to be that frigidity leads to murder and murder leads to sloth, drunkenness and terrible profanity. In three generations of women, only one survives to appreciate the wonders of conjugal love. Looking back on the murderous folly of her mother and granny, the heroine exclaims with...
Into Court. Mayor Allen turned the matter over to the board of aldermen, which voted to erect the barriers. At 7 the following morning, workmen were on Peyton and Harlan roads driving I beams into the pavement. The Negroes of Atlanta, represented by a new All-Citizens Committee composed of most Negro organizations in the city, refused to deal with the city until the barriers come down. Negroes have lost one suit in court to have the barriers torn down, but a further test is pending before superior court in Atlanta. Last week the board of aldermen considered a resolution...