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Indiana Governor Otis Bowen became the first to declare a state of emergency. He assigned the National Guard to escort trucks carrying coal. The Indiana public service commission proposed a contingency plan for reducing power when utility coal supplies get down to an emergency level...
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With hardly a falter, Elizabeth transformed herself from acolyte into doyenne. Neither rich nor silly enough to qualify as one of Evelyn Waugh's bright young things, she became a hostess whom congenital partygoers tried to please. When she inherited Bowen's Court, friends and supplicants trooped obediently to Ireland, where they endured without electricity or bathrooms. Elizabeth admitted that "the upstairs rooms are still rather Chas. Addams-ish-I often remind myself of his hostess showing in a guest: 'This is your room . . . If you want anything, just scream." She outlived her house. It was sold...
...books have outlasted other possessions. The Death of the Heart (1938) and The Heat of the Day (1949) are the novels for which she was best known, but Glendinning offers useful glosses on others as well. With varying success, Bowen constantly attacked a single problem: the effect of innocence on a world that was not ready to cope with it. "There is no doubt," she wrote in 1932, "that angels rush in before fools." She amplified this view on another occasion: "No, it is not only our fate but our business to lose innocence, and once we have lost that...
Elizabeth Bowen has its flaws. But she does not fall into the trap of equating importance with length. If dropped, her book will not break the reader's foot. Ultimately, the biography does what it is supposed to do: it rekindles interest in the writer and in her works...