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...bordello-boss of Oxnard, Calif. The sharp eye of one of our editors found the bones of the story tucked obscurely away in a Pacific Coast paper. As TIME told it fully for the first time, Lucy, after 30 years, to the astonishment and embarrassment of her fellow townsmen, was found to be a man. "Her" supreme accolade probably came from the TIME subscribers who nominated "her" for TIME's Man of the Year. But there is one more chapter to add now to the story of Lucy's trials & tribulations: the U.S. Army is after...
...Great Hope. Despite the shooting, all China shared a universal, overwhelming desire for peace. Statesmen, generals, common soldiers, peasants, townsmen wanted only to end the fighting-all fighting-and get on with the rebuilding of China's individual and national life. This vast yearning pressed alike upon the Generalissimo in Chungking and upon Mao Tse-tung in Yenan. In it lay the best hope that China would find national security short of all-out civil war, and that the thousands of Americans within the sound of Chinese guns would come safely home...
...Fellow-townsmen took sides. Little Shelby accused bigger David City (pop. 2,272) of stealing Duren's thunder with the Nichols show. The artists themselves took up prepared positions behind cornstalks, and blazed away. Nichols: "I shall never be guilty of painting in the style or viewpoint of Terence Duren. Never! Never!" Duren: "It is easy to recognize that Mr. Nichols cannot draw people . . . save at the safe distance at which he conceals all lack of knowledge of anatomical detail. I concur heartily: Mr. Nichols will never draw or paint like I do. Never...
...over France last week peasants and townsmen flocked to counters staffed by harried people and sweatily traded old money for new. They were joined by all U.S. servicemen and women who were not flat broke. The Finance Ministry had decreed a new paper currency issue. All old notes of 50 to 5,000 francs would be invalid after June 16. Purpose: to perk up France's drooping finances by clearing lost or destroyed bank notes off the books; to smoke out black-market and other illegal war fortunes, and hoarding; to cancel French currency still in German hands...
Crab Apple Jelly contains a dozen simple, tart tales of the men, women & children of Cork and Kerry. The townsmen - clerks, shopkeepers, shabby priests, students, girls who dream of America - live in a retired world of mahogany cabinets with glass fronts, gilt mirrors with cupids, sets of the History of the Popes, cheap alarm clocks on bedside tables. Snatches of whiskey, poteen or brandy turn them from sighs to smiles in the wink of an eye. Back of them are the old stone farms and grey walls of their childhood-homes huddled away on islands in the middle of lakes...