Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Santa Cruz, Calif, the library has given out 1,000 L.C.A. membership pins, estimates that the club has boosted the town's reading by one-third...
...years pretty Dolores Mann worked hard and well as a one-woman office staff for Local 2227 of the United Steelworkers in the tough steel town of West Mifflin, Pa. But last week, bundled in long underwear and layers of sweaters, coats and scarves, Dolores trudged up and down in biting winds and swirling snow before her employer's shabby office bearing a defiant placard: "On Strike." Her complaint was that the union would not let her keep her job if she married a construction worker named Victor Bosnak...
Vitelloni. One of the best of the Italian-made movies-a biting but not bitter satire of small-town life, by Federico Fellini, who directed La Strada (TIME...
...that blew a withering scirocco; its tinny walls were embossed with a meaningless pattern of fleurs-de-lis; light, dim and reluctant, came through a fixture with a shade of some ersatz material," etc.). Author Stafford is best where her heart is, in fictitious Adams. Colo., a town she loves and hates in about equal measure...
William Maxwell's What Every Boy Should Know is perhaps the most moving and wryly humorous story in the book. Set in a Midwestern small town, it tells of young Edward Gellert's stumbling entry into puberty and the total failures of communication between the very young and the rest of the world...