Word: charm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guts is Judge Garrity. This precipitated much inane commentary from the press on mixing athletics with social criticism, but on the whole the reporters like him because he's a good source: he may be Lost in Space from time to time but he's got more brains and charm than anyone on the Rad Sox. His post-game lectures on the TV news on the subject of the astrological influences on his curve ball that night are particularly edifying. In fact, his curve ball can be quite fine--he's second in the rotation...
...dashing and debonair if lightly befuddled Jimmy Winter (John Witham), returns to his palatial Southampton estate with his new bride, an insufferably prim young woman named Constance (Innes-Fergus McDade). Unbeknownst to him, however, his mansion has been appropriated by a gang of enterprising bootleggers who have managed to charm their way into the good graces of "The Girls," a sort of Platonic harem that takes care of Jimmy's house while he's away and takes care of Jimmy while he's there. In a little under 24 hours, Jimmy discovers he's committed bigamy, obtains two annulments...
Editor Michele Slung offers a bright lineup of female sleuths dating from Victorian times to the 1940s. Aside from Mignon Eberhart and E. Phillips Oppenheim, the authors will be unfamiliar to all but cultists. Even the worst of them, though, retain a kind of campy charm. For if the paraphernalia of detection have not changed much over the past 100 years, the women clearly have. In The Stir Outside the Café Royal (1898), demure Miss Van Snoop captures a notorious murderer and then weeps for 30 minutes. Observes the author: "She had earned the luxury of hysterics...
...used to be that Forbes Plaza, the space in front of Holyoke Center, was the true mecca of Square performers, but these days the Harvard cops kick them out. Just the other day a magician who was short on tricks but long on charm had attracted a huge mob but was quickly collared and hustled away. Still, sometimes you can catch a brief Forbes Plaza performance by a daring magician, if you get there before the cops...
...most amateurs, the charm of getting there, or getting no place in particular, without gas fumes or hassle or special training, is what canoeing is all about-and why it has become one of the fastest-growing sports in the U.S. The output of canoes, which has doubled in the past four years, shows no sign of being dented by recession or inflation; overall growth of the sport is estimated at 20% per year...