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...become almost a truism that the fattest U.S. publishers' prizes go to poor novels. Resting firmly in this tradition, Black Fountains has won its author $20,000 and the publicity tub-thumping that is sure to go with it. The business, if not the literary, reasons for its selection seem fairly obvious. It is an "inside" novel about Japan from 1938 to 1945, and it has a Japanese heroine who is both "modern" and curvy...
...cistern has been successfully rigged up by Lena Bloom, over at the county seat, who turned about six feet of her downspout up so the rainwater runs into a washtub that sets on a barrel, and if there is a light shower she invariably gets enough in the tub to do a washing, but a heavy downpour will not only fill the tub but will overflow and fill the barrel. . . . With the downspout lifted, her supply is ample although she has some trouble getting the washtub, when it is full, down off the barrel. 'I slop...
Ohio's other hopeful, John Bricker, cried: "It's a wide-open race. Anyone can come in." California's Earl Warren was still reluctant, though the liberal, Democratic Los Angeles Daily News had begun tub-thumping on his behalf...
Calling All Europeans. Serious, middle-aging (38) Editor Parsons, who "was thrown out of Harvard on his ear" (says Parsons Sr.) for failing to study, was the able wartime chief of the Tub's London Bureau. A Francophile like his father, he lives with his authoress wife (Drue Leyton Tartière, The House Near Paris) in an apartment whose windows look out on the Cathedral of Notre Dame...
...rooms and a bath is the standard student apartment-two rooms complete with a fireplace each; and a bath complete with a tub measuring 3 1-2 feet in length, an old-fashioned pull-chain toilet, and a marble washstand. Paul Miller '46 and his wife, Marjorie, have one of the few suites which is equipped with a shower. Necessarily, too, claims Miller, who measures 6 feet-seven, a height which Brunswick tubs were obviously not designed to accommodate...