Word: bella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Readers less forgetful than Harriet Reeves promptly took Rose to task. Wasn't his tale the same as a short story of Evelyn Waugh's, first published in 1936 under the title "Bella Fleace Gave a Party'? Waugh's story told about a lonely, eccentric Irishwoman who had also resolved to give a ball for the neighbors she had so long neglected. None of the invited guests came. Concluded Waugh: "A day later she died. Mr. Banks [her heir] . . . spent a week sorting out her effects. Among them he found in her escritoire, stamped, addressed...
First under the light was a stout, bellicose woman in a figured blue dress. She was Dr. Bella V. Dodd, onetime legislative representative for New York's Teachers Union. Until she was expelled from the party in 1949, she implied, she had been a considerably bigger Communist functionary than Louis Budenz. "I have never met Owen Lattimore," said Dr. Dodd loudly. "In all my association with the Communist Party I never heard his name mentioned . . . either as a party member or as a fellow traveler, or even as a friend." But, as her subsequent remarks made clear, she herself...
...Said That? (Mon. 10:30 p.m., NBC). Guests: Milton Caniff, Al Capp, Bella Spewack...