Word: towns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grinding corn of Fabian or Frankie Avalon. or the molasses-slow maundering of Johnny Mathis. Lola, who must settle for less, deserves more. She has been learning her trade, scrabbling at the edges of show business, ever since she sang Listen to the Mocking Bird at her home-town Y.W.C.A. in Akron 25 years ago. She was a gawky ten-year-old then, defiant of her parents' dislike of anything that smacked of entertainment. Today, at 35, she sometimes concludes that show business has been defying...
...scrambled for skill and knowledge. "Your government will never be able to restrain a distressed and discontented majority,'' warned Britain's Lord Macaulay. "This opinion," retorted President-to-be James Garfield. "leaves out the great counterbalancing force of universal education/' The focus of a European town remained the cathedral; the focus of an American town became the high school. By the 20th century, quipped Britain's Historian Denis Brogan. U.S. public education was a "formally unestablished national church...
...problem. Since they were issued in March (and nearly 200% oversubscribed), the Preussag shares have risen in value from $34.50 to $59.50. Public interest in stock purchasing has risen to such a pitch throughout Germany that the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently toured the schools in a poorer section of town, found 14-year-olds who knowingly employed stock market terms. Asked the newspaper: "Is the stock market becoming the soccer field of tomorrow?" In Holland, the Heyn chain of 360 grocery stores gives out coupons instead of trading stamps, and the coupons can be turned in for special debentures...
...boxes. His incessant wrestling with the devil is a little sophomoric, and his escape from Parmelee Cove shows the limits of even the best genre writing: Auchincloss can think of nothing better for him to do than marry a penniless fashion magazine editor and barricade himself in a Manhattan town house...
Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Fifteen expertly told short stories about life among Negroes of a small Southern town establish the author as a first-rate writer, on his first try between hard covers...