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Such, at least, was his pleasant routine till a year ago, when the outbreak of the Spanish War touched off a hitherto well-hidden social consciousness, enlisted him violently on the Loyalist side. No longer big-incomed, he managed to raise $40,000 on his personal notes and dispatched the sum to buy ambulances for Madrid, followed soon after to film The Spanish Earth...
...Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, a frustrated newspaper writer, left the cold North and set up residence in the lush remoteness of central Florida. The therapy was successful. She found herself; she found a pleasant local fellow whom she later married; she discovered a passel of good friends in the cracker families living around the creek bend; and out of her experiences she wrote the novel that made her famous, The Yearling, and later her memoir, Cross Creek...
...unexpected surprise of the afternoon, however, was the impressive performance of a somewhat inexperienced offense. Still looking for the combination to replace Jennifer White and Kate Martin--the scoring sensations which led last year's squad to an 11-2-3 mark--Crimson Coach Edie Mabrey found some pleasant surprises in sophomores Linda Runyon and Bambi Taylor...
Among the TV news anchors at NBC, Roger Mudd was the most believable. His voice was pleasant and his enunciation perfect. Without Mudd, NBC will slip...
...outlining his ideas all the way, to places where an interview subject normally wants his privacy," says White. These included a shopping trip, a visit to the podiatrist and a call on his ailing son Jonathan, 17, in a Chicago hospital. At the preacher's home in a pleasant black section of Chicago, White watched a brisk basketball game between Jackson and his aides. "His best shot is a kind of rising set shot, fired from not quite off his toes," reports White...