Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...second part is McHugh's A Minute's Wait. McHugh is less well-known than O'Connor and Lady Gregory, and his play is the slightest of the three. It is a plotless romp around a rural railroad station, and can best be described as fifteen Irish Alec Guinesses, turned loose in front of a camera. Good fun, and a fine contrast to the somber opening of the final piece...
While many old-style rural homes are having trouble staying at 100% of capacity, those near the bright lights are besieged with more applicants than they can handle. Says Director Lois Slonaker, who has a waiting list of 200 women at Evanston's 115-place Alonzo Mather Home: "What people resent more than anything else in rural locations is the feeling of being put on the shelf and laid aside. Some of our women lead the social life of a debutante...
...country minister's son, Georgia-born Erskine Caldwell never lived on Tobacco Road, but the road was close enough never to be a joke, dirty or otherwise, to him. He feels that this most celebrated of his books is as true to life in the backwashes of the rural South today as when he wrote it ("The rich are richer, the poor poorer"). Caldwell rarely reads. He argues that asking a writer if he has read any good books by other authors is "like asking a doctor if he's taken any good medicines lately." The father...
AMERICAN MOTORS will sell its 1958 small Ramblers and British-made Metropolitans in General Motors, Ford and Chrysler showrooms to make up for its own dealer shortage. American quietly is franchising 100 to 120 Big Three dealers, mostly in rural areas...
...heads of two virgins in a leather bag. When a detachment of President Ngo Dinh Diem's infantry raided one bandit hideout near the Cambodian border, they found a copy of orders from the Devil King instructing his men to kill, sow confusion among the peasantry and disturb rural security. They were told that anyone who killed ten persons would become able to fly, and anyone who killed 20 would be able to make himself invisible as well...