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...enterprising drawing master of Northampton, England hit upon the idea while watching a local horse fair. William Shipley could see that the horse fair had a workable system: its prizes encouraged men to breed better horses, which in turn led to better fairs and back again to better breeding. With that picture in mind. Master Shipley set off for London one day in 1754. His mission: to persuade a group of influential men to apply the horse-fair technique to the encouragement of art and industry...
Last week, ticket in hand, Rodney got some bad news. When he called the State Department about his passport, Division Chief Mrs. Ruth Shipley asked him: "Are you a Communist?" Answered Rodney: "That's none of your concern. What does that have to do with a passport to cover a sport event?" Mrs. Shipley thought it had plenty to do with it, since the "spirit of" the McCarran Internal Security Act bans passports for Communists. If Rodney would swear he was not a Red, she said, he could get his passport. When he declined to do so, Mrs. Shipley...
...fine, but the matter is thinner than ever. The heroine of The Catherine Wheel is Katharine Congreve, rich, lovely, kind and altogether admirable. Her problem is a not uncommon one, in or out of fiction: in her late 30s and unmarried, she gets a proposal of marriage from John Shipley, like herself a rich Bostonian, and the first man she ever loved. The catch is that he is married to her cousin, that all three are old friends, and that Katharine dearly loves the three children of John and Maeve Shipley...
...whole thing is settled during a summer when the Shipleys are in Europe and Katharine has the children at her house in Maine. In prose that is gracious, sensuous and only occasionally selfconscious, Author Stafford deals with Katharine's emotional wrestle, the special despair of young Andrew Shipley, life in the big house, the crotchety local characters. But when Katharine is burned to death in a fireworks display, the tragedy is merely shocking, not moving. The Catherine Wheel is an exercise in literary grace, so delicate that the characters and problems it creates go up with the final fireworks...
When she read Senator McCarran's blast last week, Mrs. Shipley knew just what to say: "Preposterous!" That was all that was needed. "I want to make it abundantly clear," an aghast Pat McCarran cried the next day, "that the laxity . . . is not chargeable against [Mrs. Shipley] the chief of the passport division. It is apparent that [she] has simply not had the cooperation of the topflight officials of the department...