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...tried the urban life. "Nobody mistreated me in Dallas," he was told by Donna Flood, a mixed-blood Ponca. "But I was unhappy there. It was too fast. There was noise, fumes, confusion???the white man's problems. In the city you lose your contact and feeling for the land. You become isolated." Hiner Doublehead, a Cherokee with two children, took his family to Chicago. "God, it was a jungle when we got there," he recalled. "The people lived like foreigners ?unfriendly, clannish. It was the closeness and the crammed-in living that got to me. The bars were...
...northernmost Norway, in Barents Sea between Scandinavia and Spitsbergen, in Stockholm and in Oslo last week there was confusion???the confusion that results when the Press sets its pack upon the trail of a remote and elusive news story. The discovery on White Island. Spitsbergen, of the bodies of the Swedish explorer Salomon August Andree and his companions, lost on their poleward balloon flight of 1897, was the Story (TIME, Sept. 1). Its remoteness was heightened to a degree maddening to the Press by the fact that the bodies, relics and Andree's diary were aboard the little sealer Brattvaag...
...CONFUSION???James Gould Cozzens? Brimmer ($2.00). Into the story of Cerise d'Atree, this young author (a Harvard sophomore) has packed much earnest sincerity, a good plot, no small measure of literary charm and a deal of honest thought leading to painful conclusions. Despite some immaturities of style, it is an interesting commentary on the value of varying kinds of education...
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