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...learned his lesson early. Alongside a fine book of short stories (The Last Husband and Other Stories), he can now place a first novel that shows how extraordinary the ordinary can be. Home from the Hill tells a story that will be largely familiar to every small-towner. What takes it well beyond village gossip and to a fairly high fictional level is Author Humphrey's knack for turning the feelings and motives of his characters this way and that, until each has taken an unshakable hold on the reader's interest...
...Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (2,645,745 members) ordained the first woman minister in its history, 31-year-old Miss Margaret Towner, longtime church worker and onetime professional photographer. Minister Towner will serve on the staff of the First Presbyterian Church in Allentown, Pa. Said the Rev. Herbert S. Schroder: "I hope you are the shepherd of the flock for whom you are responsible, and not their pet lamb...
...fact, as many-faceted as a diamond from Diamantina, the drowsy back-land town where he was born and raised. On the polished surface, no trace remains to recall the shy, shabby small-towner who at 18 took a third-class coach to the state capital to make his way in the world. Smooth, brisk and notably well-groomed, he suggests just what he used to be-a high-fee society doctor. Young for a Brazilian President, he looks even younger, with catlike grace and glowing vigor. His smile rivals French Actor Fernandel's in expanse. He loves society...
Double Bromide. In the La Banza, over-aggressively played on NBC's Kraft Theater (Wed. 9 p.m., E.D.T.), had the opposite fault of Man on Spikes. Its point was crystal clear but simpleminded. An ambitious small-towner exploits his brother's boxing talents, and by overmatching him, causes him to be so gravely injured that he can never fight again. The double bromide: ambition is a drug on the market, but no cure in itself for those who are sick for success. The Gambler ("Security is for suckers"), on CBS's U.S. Steel Hour...
...fiction, as in business, there is always room at the top. Just as South African writers are on the point of becoming a drug on the book market, along comes Cape Towner Uys Krige (44) with a collection of short stories as good as any current in English. They are stories about South Africa that do not. blessedly, derive from the headlines, and war tales that are moving without resorting to war-fiction language and cliches. One or two are complete failures. But the two best ones make it plain that Author Krige is more than promising: 1) The Dream...