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BROTHERS AND SISTERS (273 pp.)-Ivy Compton-Burnett-Zero Press...
...What? Incest again?" fans of Ivy Compton-Burnett will cry upon opening Brothers and Sisters. Again an old desk, locked for decades, containing a letter containing the terrible truth? Again a hard fate visiting the sins of the father upon the children...
These are among the fixed, solemn bells on which Author Compton-Burnett has managed to ring wild, gay changes for more than 30 years (e.g., Bullivant and the Lambs, Two Worlds and Their Ways). But no matter how worn her plots may be, the conversation is sure to be spangled with jewels that, to her devoted followers, still proclaim her a Cartier of contemporary fiction...
...Council for Financial Aid to Education reported that corporate gifts to U.S. colleges and universities had hit the $100 million mark in 1956-an increase of $60 million over 1950. But while total private voluntary gifts exceeded $500 million, said the council's President Wilson Compton, the nation's campuses would still need twice that amount "if they are to meet rock-bottom requirements of maintenance and growth." ¶Resignation of the week: Fred D. Fagg Jr., 60, as president of the University of Southern California. In his ten years at U.S.C., Fagg saw his enrollment nearly triple...
...Compton, Calif...