Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...member of a leading San Francisco family. As executive editor, Newhall scrapped the Chronicle's old makeup of sober type marching row on row for a blaze of bold, black headlines, launched syndicated Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren (TIME, Jan. 20, 1957), assembled a cast of 20 home-town columnists. "International news," declares Thieriot, "is not what people want to read at breakfast...
...story of Montés' futile wanderings is told through the recollections of derisive and uncomprehending French villagers, resifted by the man who collected the gossip, and who was the gaunt man's only close acquaintance. Antoine Montés came to the savagely provincial winegrowing town to claim an inheritance, the narrator recalls, his memory distorted by a sense of tragedy lurking in his background. The newcomer's father was once a prosperous winegrower. His mother surprised her husband making love to a maid and, with her baby still unborn, retreated grimly to the distant home...
Blowing incessantly, desiccating the town and the vineyards, pausing only to howl at a higher pitch, is a "furious monotonous purposeless wind"-hence the book's title. It is the breath of a malevolent universe and carries the inevitability of human defeat...
STOCKHOLM, April 12--The Soviets are training more than 1,000 top students for spying in America at a center in the Ukraine construoted as an exact copy of a small American town, a Swedish army journal said today...
...feel stung by this exhibition of apathy, its good works will not remain unnoticed long; sales are bound to pick up soon. In fact, the energetic lawmakers ought to look around not for new opportunities to serve the College. There's a six-day bike race coming to town, and tag-team wrestling at the Arena each week, and maybe a flea circus. The Council has only begun to serve...