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Roughly Speaking (Warners) should not disappoint admirers of Louise Randall Pierson's brisk, brash autobiography of a rampant housewife (TIME, June 28, 1943), and will probably amuse plenty of others. Dashing through some 40 years, it does comically for the U.S. middle class much of what A Tree Grows in Brooklyn does more seriously for the not-quite-working class...
...Donald Woods). When the "Recession" of 1921 lost him his job and got her one, he left her for another woman, telling her, on his way out: "If I died you'd just regard it as another way to develop your character." Louise's second husband, Harold Pierson (Jack Carson) was a happier match. Husband No. 1 had groaned, "Living with you and those kids was like living with Carrie Nation in a den of lions." Pierson, a happy, irresponsible sort, took on Louise and her four children with cheerful unconcern...
Leading his battalion of the 8th Marines into another beachhead landing-at Saipan last June - 6-ft, 200-lb. Lieut. Colonel Henry Pierson Crowe came about as near to getting killed as a man could, and still live. First a Jap bullet pierced his left lung, not far from his heart. Then he was almost killed by one of his own men who mistook him for a Jap. Just as the man was aiming, Jim Crowe raised his head feebly, identified himself by twirling his famed red mustache. Finally dragged back to a shell hole in the sand near...
...line-ups: HARVARD W. P. I. Arnos, le re, Herzog Mallett, lt rt, Pierson King, lg rg, Marvin Donovan, c c, Sheridan Goldbert, rg lg, Econonou (Capt.) Merrill, rt lt, Matzelevich Haymond, re le, Scott Anderson, qb (Capt.) qb, Fyler Garrity, lhb rhb, Simon Warren, rhb lhb, Schmit Lauterbach, fb fb, Norige
Roughly Speaking ends with the beginning of the Third Term. Once Mrs. Pierson returned to Quincy to see her father's house: "It was just the same! I couldn't believe my eyes. . . . The widow's walk on the roof where we used to go to watch fires . . . the opaque glass in the windows of the servants' dining room . . . the summerhouse with the well in it ... the drooping cut-leaf maple. It was all just as I remembered it. Nothing was changed. ... In the library, a light flashed on. ... I knew my mother was standing...