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Like Edward H. Faulkner (Plowman's Folly, TIME," July 26, 1943), Dr. Hardy has found that farmers who use the old moldboard plow spend 33%-50% more than those using the shallow-plowing one-way disc. With the disc a farmer can cover double the acreage plowed in the same time. Nearly all of the farmers are now using discs. To avoid pulverizing the soil and laying the prairies open to soil drifting, they should not be pulled faster than 5½ miles an hour...
Ehrenburg, an untypical Russian, is a journalistic sophisticate who lived more than 20 years in Paris. He had an idea of what to expect in the South from reading Erskine Caldwell and William Faulkner...
Richard M. Faulkner...
Moulton Marston '49--Mary Mitchell (Faulkner Nurses...
Eccentric & Enormous. Like the works of other Southern writers (Carson McCullers, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) Author Welty's earlier books also had their full quota of human abnormalities (including two deaf mutes, one case of dementia praecox, one spinster drowned in a rain barrel). Delta Wedding adds only one: an amiable child who is not all there. But she is very much all there as one of the eccentric, enormous Fairchilds family-nonchalant Mississippi gentlefolk who flit in & out of the doors and windows of their ancestral mansion much as the yellow butterflies flitted in & out of the train...