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...barren Nebraska plains country, where the author stalks his favorite game -the "Sears Roebuck Gothic" Midwesterners with souls imprisoned like "buzzing flies" in "God's cocoon." Morris has been compared variously to Sherwood Anderson, F. Scott Fitzgerald, even Mickey Spillane, but in this, his 13th book, he sounds more like a kind of slick-paper Nathanael West, without that gifted writer's savage humor. His story is wired to the tangled nerve ends of the collection of oddballs and misfits who stumbled in unrelieved bewilderment through The Field of Vision, including a sagging, dyspeptic housewife who stands weepingly...
...good arm." Still a blur on the base paths despite his knee (he has stolen six bases in six tries this year), Mantle leads the majors in runs scored, with 51. Last week Mantle was red hot, led the Yanks to a four-game sweep of Chicago, their 13th victory in 15 games and a fight with Baltimore for first place...
Divorced. John Robert Russell, 42, the 13th Duke of Bedford, who opened his 3,000-acre Woburn Abbey estate to the public (including nudists, on a strictly rental basis) to pay his taxes; by Lydia Yarde-Buller, 42, aunt of the Aga Khan; after 13 years of marriage, one son; in London...
High winds made the third round the tournament's toughest. Palmer finished the first nine in 34. But on the 475-yd. 13th hole he gambled. Trying to make the green with his second shot, he landed instead in a creek, took a bogey 6 for the hole. And again, throughout most of the day, Palmer had putting troubles. Finishing the round with a 72, he groaned, "I've putted like Joe Shmokes two days in a row." At that point, his tournament total of 212 was only one better than that of a five-man pack...
...your gay time, but just keep yourself in hand, and remember that generally speaking it's better to call older men Mister." In 1930, India's Premier Jawaharlal Nehru was serving the fifth of his nine terms in British jails. Wrote he to daughter Indira on her 13th birthday: "On your birthday you have been in the habit of receiving presents and good wishes...