Word: rural
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happy Rural Seat, by George Lanning. Brilliant first novel on the subject of the unlived life (TIME, March...
...typical schoolmarm fifteen years ago was her own janitor, boarded with a local family, earned $867 a year. After questioning 4,200 rural schoolteachers, the National Education Association decided that times are changing. In 1952 she was apt to have her own home, drive an automobile, make $2,484. Today's teachers, male or female, have also shown progress in another respect. "In 1936-37," said the N.E.A., "from 26.6 to 31.8% . . . were married. Now only 25.3% are single." ¶ To provide that air of studied insouciance that Ivy Leaguers are supposed to enjoy, the Harvard Coop has started...
...acute doctor shortage (seven counties have none at all), Georgia joined the ranks of states offering substantial aid to medical students. Up to 14 students may now borrow up to $1,500 apiece from the state in each school year. For every year they practice in a rural area or small town (pop. 5,000 or less), Georgia will lop $1,000 off their loan...
...book season has produced no brilliant major novels, but it has already introduced some highly promising first novelists, e.g., 27-year-old George Lanning, author of The Happy Rural Seat, and 31-year-old Jefferson Young, who wrote A Good Man (see Recent & Readable). Now comes a 27-year-old Polish girl named llona Karmel with a quietly gripping story called Stephania...
...Happy Rural Seat, by George Lanning. Brilliant first novel on the subject of the unlived life, with fresh variations on the Henry James theme (TIME, March...