Word: towns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Young in Heart. In Meridian, Miss., citizens turned out to welcome George L. Howe, 94, as he passed through town on a cross-country bicycle tour. In Germiston, South Africa, Peter Pringle, 118, explained why he had shaved off his beard: it made him "feel too old." In Bristol, England, Ada Ramsbotham took the occasion of her 104th birthday to reveal the secret of her longevity: "I never had a husband...
Theatrically, Washington had become the tank town of world capitals. The National Theater, the only legitimate house in town, had decided to run movies rather than obey the Actors' Equity ban on discrimination against Negroes (TIME, Aug. 9). Several willing impresarios were making no headway toward opening a playhouse. It appeared that Washington, for the first time in more than a century, would have no season...
...schools had one common complaint: too many students. In many a U.S. city and town, schools would operate in two shifts. Youngsters would be going to school in cafeterias, churches, and prefabs -and no immediate relief in sight. Said a Detroit school official: "It will be tough through...
...third to be published in the U.S. Each of these three shows him to advantage in a different vein. The Moonlight is a darkly limned, Hardyesque story of conflicting generations in modern England; The African Witch is an authentic description of life in an African town. Herself Surprised is written in what is probably Cary's most congenial mode: the humorous picaresque in which a roguish heroine recalls, with tongue-in-cheek moralizing, the dubious deeds of her past...
...fiction editor of the New Yorker, he can make a room, a house, a whole town come to life without raising his voice. Nothing happens in Time Will Darken It that small-town readers won't immediately recognize as next-door truth, but what does happen (gossip, housework, dinner parties, childbearing) is conveyed sensitively, in clean and restrained prose. Time Will Darken It is often too loosely constructed, frequently lingers with characters who don't help the story along, but it weighs with considerable accuracy and tenderness the half-articulated impulses of disenchanted people who believe, with Author...