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...seven matrimonial agencies, had wooed and won a mail-order bride from Kentucky, and planned to bring her to Tellico Plains on the Sunday morning ,train. At the time, Ray was running a shoeshine stand in the town square where Can and his bride would surely pass in the surrey on the way from the station. Ray was ordered to take that day off because Can didn't want his bride to know she had married a man whose grandson shined shoes. The boy didn't want to give up a whole day's profits...
Author Murray (who now lives in Surrey) resembles another prepossessing Commonwealth novelist, Guiana's Edgar Mittelholzer (TIME. Jan. 11), in the audacity with which she flirts with fantastic characters and odd situations. But Author Murray's chief triumph is as a specialist in African sickness. Her bedside manner is worthy of Chekhov in wit and diagnostic sharpness; in spirit and human sympathy it never departs from the grand old female tradition of the South African novel...
Half a million Britons lined the banks of the U-shaped Thames River course, jammed rooftops and windows, even clustered in treetops for just a short glimpse of the shells. The crowd broke into spontaneous cheers as underdog Oxford, favored by toss and its choice of the largely inside (Surrey) bank, broke into the lead at the halfway mark. From then on. while Cambridge floundered in the choppy water in midstream. Oxford pulled steadily ahead, won by a handy 4½ lengths...
...Rochelle, N.Y. with John Hartford ("He was wonderful; I got 30 pages of quotes including his dismay at the high cost of radishes") and an invitation to tour the Hartford country place in Valhalla, N.Y. The Valhalla tour was made with "a magnificent horse drawing a real fringe-topped surrey." After the ride they all raked leaves together before lunch, and when it was time to go, Liz was presented with a dozen fresh country eggs...
Composer Richard Rodgers, a sight in tights, and Lyricist Oscar Hammerstem II, looking like a surrey with a fringe on the bottom, turned up in a mock audition skit at a party celebrating the closing, after nearly five years and 1,925 performances, of their famed Broad way musical South Pacific. Still the long-run champion of all musicals: Rodgers & Hammerstein's Oklahoma! with 2,246 performances...