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The Author is only five years old as a U. S. citizen, as a writer, 15, as a person, 33. Known to the census as Mrs. Bernard D. N. Grebanier, fellow-Sicilians remember Frances Winwar as Francesca Vinciguerra. Born in Taormina, where her great-uncle was caretaker of the Graeco...
An old inhabitant, joining the crowd around the stove at the village store one nipping winter day, asserts that he can remember much colder weather, to prove it tells a Munchausenish yarn about an all-night fight culminating in a double murder. One of the skeptics is still unconvinced.
"These are troublesome times! . .Our leader is appealing to all of us to unite in his crusade. . . . Many of us, perhaps, have political ambitions. . . . Aspire to public office by all means! But remember what Grover Cleveland said: 'Public office is a public trust.' "
The Writer. Alice B. Toklas tells who and-to a certain extent-what Gertrude Stein is. but it will leave pedestrian readers still puzzling their heads over why this obviously shrewd and salty old lady, whose sentences may seem rather primer-like but are just as lucid as a primer...
It is also well to remember that the majority of V.C. awards are posthumous.