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Elizabeth Appleton, by John O'Hara. You can get the girl out of the Social Register, but you cannot get the Social Register out of the girl, O'Hara seems to be saying in this sharp-eyed study of a Southampton girl who married down into academic life...
...game or a couple chatting over the supper dishes, watching a college president pushing responsibility for a nasty school scandal off onto the shoulders of a young dean, he catches dialogue which seems not so much an artistic invention as an overheard invasion of privacy. An early scene in Southampton, when Elizabeth's mother politely grills her daughter's not-quite-acceptable suitor at dinner is taut with O'Hara's unique ear for innuendo and eye for man's decorous inhumanity...
Aboard the P. & O.'s newest luxury liner Canberra, when she sailed from Southampton one afternoon last week, were 1,700 Britons who had paid only $28 each for the 21-day, 12,000-mile voyage to Australia. If the tourist-class passengers were getting a bargain, they represented an even greater boon for population-hungry Australia, which still likes to boast that it is "more purely British than Britain" and has spent $128 million since 1945 to lure close to a million emigrants from the mother country...
...unemployed). But the biggest single reason for the exodus seems simply to be that the young and the talented feel restive and repressed in today's diminished Britain. For them, as for their ancestors who set out to conquer an empire, opportunity is a ship that leaves Southampton...
...Protest. Moore, 35, was a native of Binghamton, N.Y. He fought with the Marines on Guam during World War II, then embarked on an educational spree that took him to colleges in Southampton, Barcelona, Paris, Baltimore, and to Harpur College near Binghamton, where in 1952 he got a degree in social studies (B average). His pursuit of formal learning ended a year later when he was committed to Binghamton State Hospital as a schizophrenic. In a mental ward for 18 months, he wrote most of The Mind in Chains, later raised $3,500 to pay for its 1955 publication...