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...soil, an abiding sense of tradition, a refreshing wonderment at the city's delights along with a certain wariness. All these qualities are much in evidence in two new books by transplanted Southerners, North Toward Home by Willie Morris, and A Pride of Prejudices by Vermont Royster...
Illusion of Paradise. Vermont Royster, editor of the Wall Street Journal, waited until a more conventional age, 53, to publish his first book, a collection of essays on a wide range of topics that he has written over the years for his paper. Consequently, Royster is more reconciled to the aberrations of New York than Willie Morris, and gives some good advice: don't give up. A colleague of his, he reports, decided to trade the New York rat race for a Vermont farm. He soon "learned that paradise is an illusion. In the countryside...
National Names. Royster is a North Carolina boy who was shrewd enough not to shed all his country ways in the big city. He still has a fetching Southern drawl, a dry wit that takes people by surprise, and a name that stands out even in New York. Vermont's great-granddaddy, a practical man, decided to name his children after states in order to tell them apart. Along came Iowa Michigan Royster, Wisconsin Illinois, Arkansas Delaware, Virginia Carolina, Georgia Alabama, Nathaniel Confederate States. No hard feelings about Yankees; one boy was named Vermont Connecticut, and the name...
Raised in Raleigh, Royster went to prep school in Bell Buckle, Tenn., then to the University of North Carolina, where he reported for the Daily Tar Heel and made Phi Beta Kappa. "He was as busy as the bumblebee he resembled," a friend recalls. A few months after he joined the Journal, he went to Washington, where he covered the Treasury, Capitol Hill, the White House. As a sign of his new national outlook, he and his wife Frances did not name their two daughters for states; they are called Bonnie and Eleanor...
Spinning the Wheels. In 1941, Royster was commissioned in the Navy, served in the Atlantic and the South' Pacific, where baffled brass mistook his name for some kind of code. At war's end, he became the Journal's Washington bureau chief, later moved to New York to write editorials for which he won a 1953 Pulitzer Prize for "warmth, simplicity and understanding of the basic outlook of the American people." He was named editor in 1958 and put in charge of the editorial page. Though he still sets policy, he writes few editorials nowadays. Instead...