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Sirs: Sharp, exact detail is a TIME quality which readers respect. For TIME to say that Phil Stong's State Fair is "rich in sharp, exact detail" is to trespass on this TIME quality which to the devoted newsmagazine reader is sacred ground. TIME'S review of State Fair was reasonable, but to refer to the book as a standard of accuracy in details of Iowa rural life (p. 33, Sept. 5 issue) is deserving of challenge. Three times Author Stong stubs his toes on pebbles of detail any Iowa 4-H pig club member knows all about...
Like most hardworking people, lowans like detail. Rich in sharp, exact detail was Phil Stong's novel, State Fair, laid in Des Moines (TIME, May 9). But Phil Stong omitted one detail of the Iowa State Fair-the art contest for a sweepstakes prize. Last week as the 1932 Fair began, this year's sweepstakes was won again, as it has been every year since 1929, by Painter Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, an even more passionate detail-monger than Author Stong. Other prizes went to amateur artists from Grinnell, Schaller, Independence, Des Moines, Ames, Iowa City...
STATE FAIR ? Phil Stong ? Century...
...Author. Twelve novels Author Stong threw into the incinerator, or, as his wife says, laid away in lavender. State Fair, the 13th, is his first to be published, is the Literary Guild selection for May. Belonging to the fourth generation of lowans on both sides of the family, Author Stong was noted for hay-pitching and hog-calling in his youth, became a journalist later on. He foundered with the New York World when it went down, landed in an advertising agency (Young & Rubicam). The unusual native charm of his State Fair is achieved less by literary magic than...