Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero of The Fur Person does not start by being a Fur Person. He is first a stray who considers himself Cat About Town. Then he decides to be a Gentleman Cat and find a home. Though his first attempts are discouraging, he perseveres; and his fortunes are reflected in his changing names: Nice Kitty, Tom Jones, Jones, Terrible Jones, Gentle Cat, Cat of Peace, Glorious Jones, Official Philosopher, and, finally, Fur Person...
...Canada expects to be producing uranium at an annual rate of $300 million, the bulk of it in the Blind River area, where all the mines are located within a ten-mile radius of the town of Elliot Lake. Two years ago Elliot Lake was only some lines on a chart. Today it has 400 completed homes, two large trailer camps with some of the biggest, plushest trailers parked anywhere on the continent, and a population of 4,000 expected to swell to 25,000 by 1958. Around Elliot Lake traditions are being made so fast that an enterprising...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life (TIME...
Sick Shell. Duncan gets a sense of dislocation as soon as he hits the once-sleepy town of Bradysboro and hears a booster babbling about the "threshold of a new era." At his family's disintegrating tobacco plantation, he finds his father a sick shell, echoing with remembrances of the South's past and pointedly deaf to the whistle of a passing train. Duncan's sister is about to marry a progressive-minded preacher who is less interested in racial equality than he is in evening the score with erstwhile "first families" like the Welshes. Logan...
Pity Limit. Near Zwingle, Iowa, after his truck started to burn, Norman Fulmer hitched a ride to the firehouse and asked for help, was told that firemen could not work beyond the town's boundaries, hitched back to the truck, got back in, drove the fire to fire headquarters for treatment...