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Meanwhile, in Salem, Nathaniel Hawthorne, a grave, introspective, mysterious, sea captain's son, was growing up in a town that had passed its prime and was already peopled with eccentric oldsters, leftovers of Puritan days. He was also growing up in an eccentric household: his mother went to her room when she heard of her husband's death, and stayed there for 40 years; his sister left the house only at nightfall; the family meals were left outside the door of each member's room. There Hawthorne was writing stories that grew "as mushrooms grow...
...winning its one remaining golf match, the Puritan team can move out of a triple tie for second into single owner of second place, thus picking up 13 points...
Last February onetime Professor George Santayana, 72, published his first novel (The Last Puritan-TIME, Feb. 3). Last week onetime Professor Alvin Johnson, 61, followed suit. But aside from their authors' profession, these two first novels had little in common. Spring Storm was not a novel of ideas but a simpleminded, affectionate tale of nonage in Nebraska. Though critics might well say the narrative creaked and that it was peopled by wooden marionettes out of Horatio Alger, they also found that its mixture of old-fashioned naivete and shrewdness had genuine charm...
OBITER SCRIPTA-George Santayana-Scribner ($2.50). Collection of scattered lectures, essays, reviews by the onetime Harvard philosopher whose first novel (The Last Puritan, TIME, Feb. 3) made him a best-seller...
Academic peace and quiet of Winthrop was rudely upset last week by intermittent shrill squawks, driving several members from their books to a sleuthing expedition. The disturbance was traced to a balcony outside the window of a well-known Puritan pianist, upon which was perched a goose, evidently playing the role of fan mail. The goose has been removed, and members of the House go to their meals with an air of expectancy...