Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DANCE IN THE SUN (209 pp.)-Don Jacobson-Harcourt, Brace...
...cordially hated both, was sure of death and taxes. Death caught him in 1950. Taxes caught him, in their most pernicious malevolence, last week. After having coughed up $505,-598.98 from Shaw's estate so far, his executors were alerted by Britain's tax collectors to brace themselves for future bills totaling $670,401 more. Provisional total tax claim on Shaw's estate: $1,176,000 - which not only gobbles up his life savings but also takes what was left of a $200,000 bequest from his wife, who died in 1943. G.B.S.'s taxable leavings...
Berra Ballet. The arrival of the baseball season was heralded with another brace of biographies. ABC's Cavalcade Theater offered the life story of Jackie Jensen, an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, but its only dramatic high point seemed to be that, except for baseball, Jackie might have been expelled from junior high school. On Climax!, The Lou Gehrig Story possessed more inherent drama as paralysis ended both the career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute...
Sweat at the Oak Bole. In Treece's version, King Arthur becomes Artos the Bear, a barrel-chested brute with blue dye on his cheekbones.* He is plowing his father's fields with a brace of bulls when blind old Ambrosius, one of the last of the Roman legionaries, by title the Count of Britain, stumbles upon him. By the old man's side walks Medrodus, his heir apparent, and at his side hangs a lustrous sword (Excalibur of old), sole remaining symbol of legal Roman power. No Lady of the Lake hands Artos the sword...
...MALEFACTORS (312 pp.)-Caroline Gordon-Horcourt, Brace...