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Show PoclriV homeward Penny, by Hal Borland, J. B. uppincott Co., $3.9,). home made her restless, and she wanted some action. Penny is about a very bassett hound Individualistic who turned up as a stray on day at the Borlands home in BerKshire th country of northwest Connecticut. They discovered Penny's previous owners and returned her. 3he came back. She developed bad habits, chasing cows in a neighboring pasture, chasing trucks on the road. She was shuttled awry to a dog fancier in Massachusetts, kept running away, and As Borland and his wife soon learned, this pooch was a wanderer who kept turning up again and again, like a bad penny, so that is how' she get her name. Penny could be the most lovable dog imaginable when she wanted to correct, polite, affectionate. But she . ""'cl also be fcxasparatingly undependable and an hamtual runaway. It seemed that a quiet Barbara E-- l their thoughts and ideas. had DeVoto been instru- mental in launching Stegner s career in 1937 while serving as a juror on a panel which sifted the Utahns manuscript from 1,340 entries and awarded its author a $2,500 first prize in advance royalties and publication by Little, Brown & Company. The title of that novelette was Remembering Laughter, and In it, DeVoto, then editor of the Saturday Review of seen promise. literature, had Himself was a a Utahn, DeVoto powerful writer independent attitudes brought him under constant The Establishfire from which looked upon ment, him as a Westerner gone East. The friendship between DeVoto and Stegner grew and whose strengthened for 18 years, until his death in 1955. The image DeVoto created for many was that of a cranky, cynical, contemptuous rebel, but Stegner is quick to say the author of The Year of Decision: and Across the Wide 1846 Missouri century, but Stegner confesses, Im not a biographer," and when the two manuscripts are complete, will return to fiction and saying his piece. Dr. Wallace Stegner left the campus because there are not too many years of writing left and he felt the business of teaching now involves a great deal of nervous energy and had become rather ugly. Of the student unrest of the it started at 1960s, he said Berkeley and we inherited it at Powerful Writer won (which the Pulitzer Prize for history in 1948), was a tender-hearte- d man who would go to endless lengths to help friends As a matter of fact, he didnt even have to like you, he would still help where he felt it was deserved. Completing Biography Stegner currently is completing a biography of DeVoto for Doubleday & Co., Inc., for publication in 1973; to be followed by a volume of DeVo-to- s letters. For Stegner the books are honestly a labor of love, he avowedly dislikes fact writing. E 3 11, 1972 Tliirtl in Utah hi-to- Volume three of a History by Wayne Stout is row oft the press. Published by the author, the 92 ! page book relates the history of the state from 1930 to of Utah, finally disappeared. This is, quite naturally, a sentimental story, but i is told in a drily humorous vein. Nature writer Borland has woven into the narrative some pleasant observations about country living. The w hole account is a pleasure to Miles Smith, read. Associated Press. series ready ry Utah's 1971, including nial celebration Centen- in 1847. Stouts two earlier volumes covered the periods from 1870 to 1883 and 1896 to 1929. Cut loose ties with past and we become nothing, says Wallace Stegner. Stanford. The kids didnt come to learn, they came angry and with answers not questions. As an afterthought, Stegner, his features reflecting concern, remarked: I dont know why when you get mad at Mr. Smith, you break Mr. Joness windows. Personal Satisfaction Winning the Pultizer Prize brought him personal and and regional satisfaction, of that Angle Repose should have been the book thus recognized seems fitting. It is a beautifully fashioned story of a man searching for an understanding of his past in the lives of four generations of family. The past means a great deal to Stegner. In times of crisis people turn to history. Certainly, as some of the protesters of today argue, we may be prisoners of the past, but we also are imprisoned in the human species. We have to keep our ties with the past to learn and grow. Cut loose from the past and we become nothing. It doesnt make any difference if there are flaws in the marble or not; marble history carved from. ',1 thats the must MEN'S SHOPS X Our ties with the past are necessary in order to learn, grow, novelist says Continued From Page Tribunt, Sunday, June ail I f'sh wed of bound. With gas and gear and goodies bought It cost ten bucks per pound. But trout is economical They say, a budget dish. Just one thing is illogical You see, we dont like fish. Marian S. Hahne 143 North 300 West Cedar City, Utah The Salt Lake Tribune will pay $2 for each original poem, not exceeding 20 lines in length, published here. Contributions should be mailed to Poetry, The Salt Lake Tribune, P.O. Box 867. Salt Lake City, Utah. Poems cannot be We may be prisoners of past, but were imprisoned in human species. c Youll bark about the doggone story Kwl Tumble We figured cost caught As we were i An iiulii(Iuaiitic k-!- be Olytrpus Hills . . . Foothill Village . . . Valley Fair Mail s iwirii j m&k In his dedicatory address at the Uni ersity of Utahs new library building in May, 1968, he described the endeavor as an act of stubborn and sassy faith . . because this is not the great age of books. No young perHe continued, son respects history as much as do people who have lived a little of it. hy do you care where you came from or what fur Father's Day, give him your ancestors did? a girl asked me when I wras trying to explain to a group of students my reasons for writing a somewhat personal history book, Wolf Willow. Man of Best As a thinker and a writer, Stegner seems anxious to address himself to that question at length. Stegner is a man of the West, the kind of individual who, seizing a few moments between speeches in his wife, Utah, collected Mary Stuart Page Stegner, and their airedale, Suzy, and drove to the Bear River Bird Refuge for a quiet look at the land. rthe Pm Collar thats guaranteed to take 75 washings without Wallace Stegner will be an important voice on the literary scene and he is a man with much to say . Angle of Repose" will be good company The for his other works: A On Potters House, Darkling Plain, shirt with the a wrinkle Fire and Mormon Country, Ice, The Big Rock Candy MounA One Nation, tain, Shooting Star, and All the Little Live Things as well as and the The Preacher Slav-1- , The Gathering of The Sound of MounZion, tain Water, and Beyond the Hundredth Meridian. 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