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Sirs: Sharp, exact detail is a TIME quality which readers respect. For TIME to say that Phil Stong's State Fair is "rich in sharp, exact detail" is to trespass on this TIME quality which to the devoted newsmagazine reader is sacred ground. TIME'S review of State Fair was reasonable, but to refer to the book as a standard of accuracy in details of Iowa rural life (p. 33, Sept. 5 issue) is deserving of challenge. Three times Author Stong stubs his toes on pebbles of detail any Iowa 4-H pig club member knows all about...
Like most hardworking people, lowans like detail. Rich in sharp, exact detail was Phil Stong's novel, State Fair, laid in Des Moines (TIME, May 9). But Phil Stong omitted one detail of the Iowa State Fair-the art contest for a sweepstakes prize. Last week as the 1932 Fair began, this year's sweepstakes was won again, as it has been every year since 1929, by Painter Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an even more passionate detail-monger than Author Stong. Other prizes went to amateur artists from Grinnell, Schaller, Independence, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City...
...fell flat on his face beside the track. He managed to stand up without help when the band played "God Save the King." Second to Hampson by a foot was Alexander Wilson of Canada, who had raced him stride for s tride over the last 100 yd. Third was Phil Edwards, Canadian Negro who used to run for New York University. Edwards had set the pace for the first lap, held on to save third place by 2 yd. from U. S. Champion Eddie Genung...
...Bronx, when Officer Pierce Glynn ordered him to move his pushcart, Phil Cohen, cherry peddler, refused. Officer Glynn arrested Peddler Cohen, ordered him to push his cart to the police station. Peddler Cohen flatly refused. Sweating Officer Glynn trudged the pushcart to the police station. Peddler Cohen marching by his side blithely chanting: "Chay-reeeees! fresh chay-reeeees...
STATE FAIR ? Phil Stong ? Century...