Word: authorizations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sydney Telegraph rushed Australian Crown Prosecutor Charles Rooney 12,000 miles to London by air to cover the trial with a lawyer's eye. The London Daily Mail hired long-haired Author Peter Quennell, who was obligingly overwhelmed: "By comparison, Crippen was a sentimentalist and Landru† a boastful playboy." Even the dignified London Times gave the story three full columns...
Running a fast eye over the Western Reserve's 150-year history, Author Hatcher traces its mushrooming from a scattering of lonely, mud-bogged farms and white, New England-style towns into today's mill-studded industrial area. There is a sharp parallel between Cleaveland's early settlers and the impoverished mid-igth Century immigrants from Europe who also got a new hold on life in Ohio...
...their 18th Century fortunes slave-trading on the sultry Gold Coast. Twilight takes over where Sun set, and sweeps the swelling Floods up to the brink of the 20th Century - leaving no doubt that at least one more huge tome is going to have to be purred over by Author Steen before the moonlight dissolves...
Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...
Voice from Beyond. When President Truman asks Lanny to undertake just one more mission to Stalin, Lanny lectures the dictator on world peace and leaves him barely able to reply. Author Sinclair also arranges for Lanny to hold an astonishing conversation with the voice of the Boss from the beyond...