Word: dahling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Someone Like You, by Roald Dahl. First-class short stories with bizarre, sometimes macabre plots and often surprise endings (TIME...
Mary's little leg of lamb is an unusual weapon, but no more unusual than Roald Dahl's plots. Someone Like You is a collection of 18 of the 37-year-old Briton's quietly savage tales. They are.often macabre and always bizarre, involving chicanery, murder, dismemberment or some more commonplace drawing-room horror...
...Author Dahl is an adroit craftsman who knows how to make the unlikely seem probable. He builds long bridges of suspense, then skillfully carries his stories across to his predetermined points. It is not surprising, in view of his qualities, that he has been overpraised. Long on plot, short on character, his stories extract their effectiveness from anecdotal gimmicks and surprise endings. One test of a fine story is its rereadability, and this, naturally, is a test that few of these modern O. Henry tales can meet...
Paris police picked up a pilot and a former stewardess, accusing them of stealing a reported $34,285 in gold from the Swissair plane to which they were assigned last October. The pilot owned up that he was the same Harold E. ("Whitey") Dahl, 44, American, sometime soldier of fortune who was shot down while piloting a fighter plane for the Spanish Republicans in 1937 during Spain's civil war. Dahl had been sentenced to death, but his wife sent her photograph and a plea for mercy to Generalissimo Francisco Franco, who pardoned...
...Hope Show (Tues. 8 p.m., NBC). With Fred MacMurray, Arlene Dahl, Janis Paige...