MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, May 17, 1948

MANNERS & MORALS

¶The Retail Bookseller confidently predicted that a new novel, Parris Mitchell of Kings Row, would be a bestseller. "It has everything in it that made its predecessor [Kings Row] sell: horror, sex, madness and depravity—all handled with dignity and restraint."

¶Daisy, a Salt Lake City zoo tigress, gave birth to the first known liger (offspring of a female tiger, a male lion) ever born in the U.S.*

¶Dr. Luther Evans, Librarian of Congress, announced that the original manuscript of Alice in Wonderland would be sent back to England as a gift from Americans. Dr. Evans spent...

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