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...Black Prince, by Shirley Ann Grau, was the year's best book of short stories by a new writer. The Southern setting, the emotional range from violence to tenderness, the measure of black man and white man, were uncommonly well managed by an author of only...
...BLACK PRINCE, by Shirley Ann Grau (294 pp.; Knopf; $3.50), is the most impressive U.S. short story debut between hard covers since J. D. Salinger's Nine Stories (1953). Only 25, daughter of an old New Orleans family, Author Grau describes herself as "a thoroughly ordinary sort of person." Her book proves she. is not, at least not when she settles down before her typewriter. Sticking to what she knows, she tells of Southerners, black and white, of their problems and of the ordinary pressures of common experience. But Author Grau makes ordinariness seem pressing. At least three...
...presidential election last week, Fulgencio Batista told his followers: "From the results so far, it appears that I am the President-elect." It was a modest enough statement for a dictator who controlled the electoral machinery and whose only competitor in the race, ex-President Ramón Grau San Martin, had withdrawn before the election (TIME...
...Batista gave the counters their cue. ''Seventy percent of the electorate voted, and 60% have voted for me," he told his followers. To no one's surprise, the final returns reported a 70% vote and a 6-1 margin for Batista. The opposition votes went to Grau, whose name remained on the ballots despite his walkout. Batista's four-party coalition bagged its constitutional limit of Senate seats (36 out of 54), all nine provincial governorships, and most other offices. Said Grau: "The future of Cuba is dark...
Candidate Grau promptly announced his withdrawal. "There are no longer any guarantees of a free election," he said. But Grau's name will still appear on the printed ballots. Asked whether he would accept the presidency if he won in spite of all, Grau snapped: "That's not a realistic question...