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The Call Was Necessary. Oveta Hobby's life moves with the precision of a metronome. At home in Houston, she issues household instructions to her domestic staff at weekly meetings. A fitful sleeper, she keeps a notebook on her bedside table, makes frequent midnight notes on her "planned life...
She was born on Jan. 19, 1905* in a frame house on a quiet street shaded by hackberry trees, the second of Isaac and Emma Hoover Culp's seven children. Her mother named her Oveta (an Indian word for forget) after a character in a romantic novel, and because...
The Germans approached the problem with Teutonic thoroughness. They were on the scene three months in advance, going over the course again & again, measuring gradients and corners. German drivers even got out of their cars to hand-test road surfaces. Leaving little to chance, the Germans saturated the entry lists...
In one of his many footnotes Professor Jones points out that not until he had finished the series of lectures upon which this book is based did he encounter "The Lonely Crowd" by David Riesman '31. Riesman's book is a lengthy study of contemporary American social patterns, particularly the...
In the past three years, New York Yankee fans have been treated to the rough & ready English of Dizzy Dean and the schoolboy precision of Joe DiMaggio, who even read his interviews from scripts. Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all...