Word: dahl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opera scores, as last week's Jackson performances demonstrated, are tautly constructed, neatly professional jobs, full of garish dramatic effects. The Soldier, based on a story by Roald Dahl, is a moody study of a World War II veteran who returns home psychologically scarred, suspects his wife of trying to drive him insane, and eventually winds up in a mental institution. To this curdled tale Composer Engel fitted a score shot through with warm lyrical flights that died suddenly in derisively dissonant evocations of the chaos in the soldier's mind. Engel's fellow Jacksonians responded enthusiastically...
Born. To Arlene Dahl. 30, red-haired cinema siren (Wicked As They Come), and Fernando Lamas. 43, suave, Argentine-born Broadway actor (Happy Hunting): a son, their first child; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Lorenzo Fernando. Weight...
However, with the exception of such proven masters of the sharply written, razor-edged tale as John Collier, Roald Dahl, and Saki, few of Hitchcock's authors can both write well and create an intriguing situation or plot. The book's first few selections are rather dull cases in point, and make an unfortunate beginning for an anthology. The editor's idea of arranging authors in reverse alphabetical order is perhaps commendably simple, but hardly functional for anyone who reads more than one story at a time. In this case the arrangement leads to a most uninviting first fifty pages...
Judging from last year's performances, top men for the senior-less UMass team are juniors Lee Chisholm and Tom Flynn, and sophomores Don Madara and Erik Dahl. The two juniors placed high in the New England Championships last fall, while Dahl defeated Jim Schlaeppi, last year's number one Yardling, when the two met as freshmen. Madara finished second against Williams...
While waiting for the new hearing, Dahl went back to Canada and got a job with a Quebec bush airline, flying supplies to the Arctic radar sites. At Frobisher Bay on Baffin Island last week, the owner of a beat-up DC-3 propositioned him to ferry the plane with two passengers to the mainland. The aircraft had no operational radio equipment, but it was flyable-and bush pilots earn their extra dollars by taking risks. Dahl took the job and was only minutes away from his destination when the old bucket gave up the battle and went down...