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...days later, 90 miles away in the jungle near a mountain resort hotel, Weldy came upon Harrison again. This time Harrison was accompanied by Confidential's Managing Editor A. P. Govoni and a blonde nightclub singer, Geene Courtney, 30, onetime Miss Cheesecake of New York. The party carried guns for hunting, but as a Confidential spokesman put it, " It was a sort of a lark in the mountains; you know what I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reader Response | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

Weldy began to argue again with Har rison. "He was gesticulating and nearly hysterical," according to Harrison, who had never come up against an armed reader before. "The gun flew from his hand and hit a rock. Courtney screamed. I felt an awful pain and fell down. Weldy beat it like a shot out of hell." Govoni, who was armed, lit out fast, too. Like Weldy, he said he rushed off to get help, though both seemed equally eager to get out of gunfire range. That left Harrison, clutching a flesh wound in his left shoulder, and Miss Courtney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Reader Response | 9/17/1956 | See Source »

...more typical American contender in the Sagan sweeps is Pamela Moore, 18, a Barnard College senior, whose novel Chocolates for Breakfast will appear later this month. It deals with a fading movie star's daughter named Courtney Farrell, who between 15 and 17 has an affair with her mother's gigolo-a homosexual until the heroine sets him straight. After that it's just one Yale man after another, until Courtney turns for intellectual companionship and "decency" to a Harvard law graduate-an "older...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Little Women at Work | 9/10/1956 | See Source »

...Meters. Pitt's great Negro Arnie Sowell, who has been kicking cinders into the eyes of Fordham's Tom Courtney all year, saw Courtney (now running for the Army) whiz past his right shoulder and win by 5 yds, to set a new American record...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Ever | 7/9/1956 | See Source »

Baba and her friend have a private word-hysteria-for anything of which they disapprove. It is a word they use particularly often in reference to Americans. Yet Baba finds herself entranced by two Americans-Courtney and Alix Nichols, who betray the un-Indian heresy of being in love in the romantic Western pattern. Alix is also a recognizable U.S. type in that when Indian servants place a chair of honor for her, she insists on sitting on the ground. She will love the Indians, if it kills her-and them. Soon, of course, she is an expert on saris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Coming of Age | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

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