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...Young to Vote. When Ike Culp won a seat in the Texas legislature in 1919, Oveta went with him to Austin, never missed a day's session. A solemn-eyed child of 14, she sat beside her father in the turbulent House of Representatives, picked up the nuances of politics and law like a prairie hen picking up seeds. Ike vacated his seat in 1921 and Oveta returned to the life of a schoolgirl, but after Austin, school was a big bore. She frequently skipped classes at Temple High School, though she managed, nevertheless, to lead her class...
...Troubador" by Eugene Walter is a neatly humorous story of a solemn Louisiana boy and a credulous old lawyer. Much of my satisfaction with the story came from Walter's mastery of the intricacies of Southern language. The phrase, "Oh, I can't abide creepie-crawlies" evokes Texas and Louisiana more convincingly for me than any amount of slopped-on dialect. Matthiessen's story "A Replacement" rings true in its dialog between a captured American flier and a German officer in the dying days of the last war. The least pleasing bit of fiction is "The Accident" by a young...
Counterattack Fortnight ago, three solemn representatives of Actors' Equity marched into Jenny's dressing room...
...suddenly, and without warning, he went too far. Seven presidents, for almost half a century, have performed the solemn task of throwing out the first ball. Does Eisenhower care? Does the welfare, the morale of the country worry him? Is he concerned about the example he is setting the nation's youth, the nation's public servants? Apparently not. All he seems to care about is a game of golf...
...illustrate a story on Stalin's death last week, the New York Times printed a photo of a solemn-faced Moscow crowd. Their mood seemed to fit the prose of the Times's Moscow Correspondent Harrison Salisbury: "One had the feeling that here were persons who had suffered a heavy and severe blow...