Word: amber
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Heroine Chloe ("The One Woman, with all London at her feet") is as far removed from Winnie-the-Pooh as Amber is from Little Eva. Her beauty, writes Milne, who is now a frosty and vigorous 64, "was beauty triumphant; alive, challenging, insistent; a brilliant attack on the sex of every man." From the instant of her awakening (around noon) to the moment when her gorgeous form slides between the sheets once more (6 a.m., usually), Chloe's boudoir rings with the anguished moans of a slew of infatuated males, ranging from struggling artists to doddering peers, and mostly...
While this may leave the author of "Forever Amber," and other writers who sell sex by the ream, out in the cold, the complete works of Mr. Hemingway and other novelists are shelved in Widener, Metealf explained...
ATLANTA. NEED A CHECK ON STORY THAT A BURGLAR RANSACKED GEORGE WORD'S HOME, TOOK ONLY A COPY OF FOREVER AMBER, LEFT IT UNDER THE PILLOW OF NEXT-DOOR-NEIGHBOR SALLY CARTER...
Died. Newton Booth Tarkington, 76, best-selling literary Gentleman from Indiana, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinner (The Magnificent Amber sons, 1919; Alice Adams, 1922), whose heirs included Willie Baxter, Penrod and Sam, Monsieur Beaucaire; after long illness; in Indianapolis. In the generation of Hoosier writing which produced James Whitcomb Riley and George Ade, he carved his niche with tender, trenchant satire on U.S. life and manners. A tremendous worker, he wrote 60 novels and plays, drove himself so hard that he once lost his eyesight. In the belief that pleasure should pay, he financed upkeep of his Kennebunkport, Me. home with...
Required Reading. In Atlanta, a burglar ransacked George Word's home, filched a copy of Forever Amber, left it under the pillow of next-door Neighbor Sally Carter...