Originally published: Garden City : Doubleday, 1975.
Contents
The seven o'clock syndrome -- Do not go gentle into that good night -- Ice -- Wheee! the jury! -- Flu -- The animal farm and the time of the possum -- Winter Island -- I'll never make it in Camelot -- Spring in Atlanta : an unabashed love story -- Some thoughts on the cute, cute, fifties -- My grandfather died -- The baby bachelors and other stories -- Her ladyship regrets -- Tornado weather -- The coming of crossroads -- Journey through a distant summer -- Reunion in Princeton -- I don't like New York in June -- A southern ghost is not your ordinary haunt -- Ten days that shook the world -- Two weeks in Maine -- The day the heat left town -- Fall -- The bad time -- Reflections on advertising -- The time of the party -- There was an old woman -- Christmas country.