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Contemporary Charleston is full of high-willed traditions, high-walled houses and high-born gentlefolk like Judith Redcliff, who would not think of having Sunday dinner before three in the afternoon. Shut in by such walls, lusty commoners like Lorena Hessenwinkle seem more vital, vulgar and exciting than they would otherwise. Judith's husband - the triangle's apex - happens to be dead but is still alive enough to cause high-tension bickering between the girls at Judith's three o'clock dinner. Novelist Josephine Pinckney has water-colored a neat, pale comedy of manners which...
John A. Hauchey-Lorena Roy (Providence...
Sung with neither smirk nor schmalz by onetime Preacher Frank Luther and a few assistants, these songs give a clearer glimpse of the old-time U. S. than many a ponderous history book. The U. S. soldier of the 1860's sang about his girl (Lorena), his mother (Who Will Care lor Mother Now?), his pesky bumps & bruises (Eating Goober Peas, A Life on the Vicksburg Bluff) as simply, sentimentally and humanly as his grandson did in the World War. Sample (North...
Prominent last week in the Legion's parade, and looming so large in Cleveland that the convention seemed like a huge family party, were the Legionaries' wives. Robust Mrs. Lorena Harm of Wayne, Neb. was elected to succeed Mrs. Melville Mucklestone as national president of the Legion Auxiliary and her job seemed so big that she prepared to put her 9-year-old son under her sister's care in order to devote all her time to Auxiliary affairs...
...goldfish-like life of the President of the U. S. bothers Franklin D. Roosevelt-less than it has many of his predecessors. Last weekend, however, he felt the need of some real privacy. Accompanied only by Mrs. Roosevelt, her friend Miss Lorena Hickok, his personal secretary Marguerite Le Hand, he boarded the Government yacht Sequoia and cruised down the Potomac to meditate on one of the Administration's major problems: how to get the wheels of heavy industry turning and employ the workers of heavy industry who in spite of PWA and NRA still remain idle...