Word: autumns
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...misconstrue their motives. For it was not a base desire for commercial advantage that prompted these men to decorate our humble thoroughfare on the last day of October. Rather was it a sincere wish to bring holiday cheer to a borough caught in the doldrums of the dreary autumn season...
Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie...
Sinclair Lewis, by Mark Schorer. The author piles up details with the enthusiasm of a squirrel in autumn, and almost succeeds in burying a fascinating biography of the scourge of Babbittry, who, throughout his years of self-exile, never really left Gopher Prairie...
Paris Blues (United Artists) has something for the tourists: autumn in Paris. It has something for the cats: regressive jazz by Duke Ellington. It has something for the newspaper ads: a hint of interracial romance. It has something for the marquee: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Sidney Poitier, Diahann Carroll, Louis Armstrong. All it lacks is something to pull these parts into a sensible whole...
...Simple Thing. In jaded New York, where the arrival of autumn serves mainly to announce one more World Series (25 pennants are draped on the walls of Yankee Stadium), news of the Yankees' victory was accepted serenely. Mayor Robert F. Wagner planned a ticker-tape parade, but the idea was promptly vetoed by the businesslike Yankee front office. "Too many things have to be done," explained a Yankee spokesman. Hard-shelled Ralph ("The Major") Houk, 42, who won a pennant in his first year as a big league manager, had a disarmingly simple explanation for his success. "Really, this...