Word: piercee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Better Offer? Central directors will meet this week to decide on the deal and what price they will pay. They will have to hustle. The C. & O. has already hired Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith to solicit B. & O. stockholders to accept its offer. The C. & O. will exchange one...
ON A LONESOME PORCH (237 pp.)-Ovid Williams Pierce-Doubleday ($3.95).
The theme of this book is one of the great, enduring cliches of U.S. literature: the dowager of a North Carolina first family finds her old way of life in ruins after the Yankee barn burners go home. But the variation on the theme-how in shoring up the fragments...
For "Miss Ellen" Gray, the well-bred widow who is the wispy heroine of Pierce's story, self-discovery is not easy. She spent her prewar life in an indolent dreamworld as soft and sheltered as a cotton boll, with endless maids and mammies to tend every want that...
Compared with The Plantation (TIME, March 2, 1953), Author Pierce's impressive first novel, On a Lonesome Porch suffers from literary jerry-building. What saves it is its subtle, flexible prose, which can gallop in tense, comma-strewn sentences when Northern cavalry slashes through the Carolinas, or laze through...