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...past. One of her books (Paul Revere and The World He Lived In) took the 1942 Pulitzer Prize in history; another (The Running of the Tide) won the 1947 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $150,000 novel contest. Regional devotion comes naturally to Esther Forbes, daughter of a pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts clan, one of whose 17th-century members died in jail while awaiting trial for witchcraft. There is little witchcraft, unfortunately, in Author Forbes's latest novel, Rainbow on the Road, and the plot is frugal even by Yankee standards. A solid fog of research muffles her characters, but whenever...
Reasons for the big split were obscure, and there were a dozen different explanations. According to one rumor, Bonelli had cast covetous eyes on the governorship, but Publisher Norman Chandler, 54-year-old chief of the Chandler clan, thought that was going too far. Whatever the reasons for the falling out, the Chandlers drew first blood last October (TIME, Oct. 19) with a series of articles in their tabloid, the Los Angeles Mirror-denouncing Bonelli and his "saloon empire." Big Bill's board, charged the Mirror, displayed incredible laxity in freely handing out liquor licenses to racketeers and political...
...Kellys, wherever they are, will give thanks that a MacManus of Miami has risen to refute the charge that one of the contumelious clan of Kelly could ever be merely cantankerous...
...locust's behavior is as unpredictable as the areas in which it appears. For years the Schistocerca lives a solitary, law-abiding life, the members of the clan thinly scattered over the countryside. Then, suddenly, what entomologists call the gregarious phase begins. The scattered insects somehow get together and converge in a huge, destroying swarm, leaving the land ruined wherever they pass...
...Stay Out. A Cambridge graduate (third-class honors), Mutesa II is a handsome, 29-year-old Muganda of the ruling Mushroom clan. He put on a dark brown suit, knotted his regimental tie (the blue and scarlet stripes of the Grenadier Guards, in which Mutesa is an honorary captain) and drove off in his black limousine. He and Governor Cohen talked for two hours. The interview was not a success. Out stalked the governor; in strode a British policeman with a warrant for the King's arrest. Forthwith, His Highness got orders to clear out of his native Uganda...