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...farmhouses and in smaller cities where families still live close together, they would all gather under one roof, and grandfather would say grace before the dinner began. Too soon after dinner, there would be snacks of rich brown fruit cake, baked weeks before and set aside to ripen. In the South children would shoot off firecrackers and their elders would drink eggnog...
...writers new this year, it seemed likely that few would ever ripen to replace those whom the year killed. Still, there were some good ones. I. J. Kapstein's Something of a Hero ($2.75) was an honest, compassionate image of a U.S. city and of the obligations and shortcomings of U.S. democracy. William Faulkner's younger brother John, in Men Working ($2.50), showed neither influence nor need of any. River Rat ($2.50), by Daniel Lundberg, showed a fresh comic talent; Felice Swados, in House of Fury ($2), showed remarkable sure-footedness with new and difficult material: adolescent emotions...
...banker narrow his eyes. Its chief victims were Chase National Bank, Kuhn, Loeb & Co., Mercantile-Commerce Bank (St. Louis). For over two years they had been nursing a deal with the State of Arkansas for the marketing of $136,330,557 of bonds. But when it began to ripen, the bankers got worried, went to Friend Jesse and asked him to take $46,000,000 of the issue off their hands. Jones's answer: fine...
...public record is, by all odds, being chosen by Young and Swope. In 1937, when Wilson was vice president in charge of merchandise and appliances, and Reed general counsel to the lamp department, they were plucked and made respectively executive vice president and assistant to the president, there to ripen in the hands of Young and Swope. Last week's news was formal recognition of their coming...
Only time can prove the value of insulin shock treatment. Most patients remain sane afterwards for at least a year; others, who show no good effects immediately after treatment, may take several months to "ripen" into sanity. Best results occur in young patients, between the ages of 17 and 25. But more stable is the sanity won by persons of more mature age, who do not have to contend again with the psychic hazards of adolescence. For schizophrenia victims who have been ill more than six months, there is little hope, although obstreperous patients may become gentler, more obedient after...