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...find that the Brooklyn of A Tree Grows in and Maggie-Now has been replaced by a Midwestern college campus, but the fact is that mythical Brooklyn has merely been transplanted-with its air of nostalgia, its saintly cast of characters and its turn-the-crank emotions comfortably intact. With the momentum of a balky suburban train, Joy tells of the domestic crises suffered by a young law student and his trembling teen-age bride in the first year of their marriage. The two survive because the heroine is "a friendly, warmhearted girl who likes people. No decent person would...
...turn the surging U.S. civil rights movement to his own purposes. He had somehow figured that by complaining of persecution for his championship of Negroes, he might yet coerce Walnut into building that road to his property on Castle Hill. When the cops began throwing his complaints into their "crank" file, he came up with a real nifty...
...crisis. But, said Macmillan, a lot of people were then trying to get into the act "to weaken our resolution." A little later, Wilson himself got a letter from Ward, boasting of his supposed help in settling the Cuba matter, but filed it away as coming from a crank. Before Ivanov was recalled to Moscow* in January 1963, he aroused suspicion in other ways. A bridge player who took a hand in some very high-level games, he lost steadily, as much as $140 a night. "I do not believe the Soviet embassy's petty cash would stand such...
...split runs "slowed down the operation, and they had to go," said the cost-conscious Walls, who bought the Advertiser and Journal in March and has interests in a handful of Tennessee and Virginia papers. Since the changeover, Walls has had a few complaints from Negroes, and enough crank calls from white extremists to persuade him to have his phone conversations monitored...
...British movies, crime usually pays handsomely-at least if the crook is a dear old crank whose only motive is to raise some lolly for the League Against Cruel Sports. In real life, larceny is even more lucrative for the professional who specializes in the sophisticated jobs that the English call "Yankee-style" crime. Robberies alone have soared by more than 200% (to some $5,000,000 yearly) in metropolitan London over the past decade, while payroll thefts have gone up almost 500% since 1960. Chief reason for the increase in "snatchings and takings," as Scotland Yard calls them...