Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town of Woodward (pop. 8,000) in the heart of northwest Oklahoma's wheat country is a quiet kind of place, typical of farming regions where elbowroom, sunshine and plenty of fresh air are as free as the wind in the fields. There, last week, Robert Smith, 12, and his brother David, 10, got home from Sunday school at the United Brethren Church, ate their lunch and set out together for the movies. On the way, Robert broke into a local surplus supply store, stole four .22-cal. pistols...
...Young ordered David sent to a boys' ranch for delinquent children. Robert, seemingly unperturbed after a good long cry, waited in the county jail. He was charged with murder. In the pleasant streets of Woodward, astonished grownups asked each other how such a thing could happen in their town...
...whites while the rest of the diplomatic corps were allotted seats in the council chamber. When the Indian assistant commissioner, the wealthy, Oxford-educated Rajah of Alirajpur, had to visit the Nyasaland capital of Zomba on official business, the only hotel accommodations he could get were 40 miles from town. The rajah has his hair cut by his pretty wife because, he says bitterly, "it has been made painfully clear to me that if I go to a barbershop, some white bricklayer or truck driver will object to sitting next to an Indian...
Birdhouse for Bluebirds. The man who created this U.S. showcase was born and reared in the Arkansas university town of Fayetteville (pop. 18,069). First member of the Stone family to go to Arkansas was Ed Stone's grandfather, taciturn Stephen K. Stone, who managed to amass such a fortune in real estate and merchandise that he was known as "the Richest Man in Washington County." His sons, including Ed's father, Benjamin Hicks Stone, were raised in Southern comfort, so well off none of them troubled to work very hard...
What lends the book its interest, despite shortcomings, is a scattering of mixed-blood, split-level aristocrats, culturally nouveau riche but genealogically ancien régime, and some well-described scenes of a dismal garrison town with bored military wives and senior officers well past their World War I prime. Above all, there is the unusual setting. Despite the fact that Novelist Dohrman, 29, has spent only one week in Haiti, he manages to convey that the jungle to him is partly D. H. Lawrence's "blood-consciousness" and partly O'Neill's "dat ole davil...