Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pursuit of costs, magazine prices were going up. First Curtis hiked Ladies' Home Journal, once a dime, from 15? to a quarter. LIFE this week went up a nickel to 15?. Nation and New Republic whispered to each other, decided they could get $6 a year instead...
...PURSUIT OF LOVE (247 pp.) -Nancy Mitford-Random House...
...written five novels, but her latest has the qualities of a first-rate first novel. This comedy of aristocratic manners that is a best-seller in England has freshness, spontaneity, characters that seem to have stepped out of the author's life-which is precisely what most of Pursuit's characters have done...
Ivan & Spencer. In The Pursuit of Love, Author Mitford draws the political stings from most of these flesh & blood characters, remodels them into a charmed family circle that is as sparkling and daft as a fairy tale. In addition to a lovely heroine who does just what the title suggests, Pursuit stars one of contemporary fiction's best-loved character types-a father who combines the behavior of Ivan the Terrible with the heart of Spencer Tracy...
...setting of most of Pursuit is Alconleigh-a forbidding country mansion littered with terriers, halberds, "penholders made of tigers' teeth," a dusty collection of rare minerals, pet dormice, horses, French governesses, peasants and pheasants. Winter & summer, day began at 5 a.m., when Lord Alconleigh greeted the dawn with one his favorite records (Drake Is Sailing West, Lads, the "mad" scene from Lucia, or Lo, Here the Gentle Lark, sung by Galli-Curci), and strode on to the lawn cracking a Canadian stock whip. After breakfast, he gave his daughters a brief head start, then hunted them crosscountry with four...