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...published under the appropriate title of "Blood and Swash." Another time she is left in the lurch in timehonored tradition by a smooth apple of a cad. played with spirit by George Sanders. The Tierney trips through all her troubles unobtrusively enough, mouthing her dialogue in a soft, damp voice, while Rex Harrison, rough, bluff, and sentimental, steals the show as a happy inhabitant of the happy hunting grounds...
Ding Dong Bell. Near Charles City, Iowa, the pussy that fell in the well kept 72-year-old would-be rescuer Mrs. Bert Dawley company until both were hauled out, damp but undamaged, 40 hours later...
...three-year-old course record in the first round of last week's $15,000 Inquirer Invitation Tourney. Fellow golfers shook his hand and slapped his back. Just when he was beginning to enjoy prosperity, the crash came. Veteran Ben Hogan, finishing three hours later over the damp fairways, entered the locker room triumphantly. He had just scored six under par, shooting six birdies and a big wide hole in Alexander's brand-new record...
Daphne Athas is young (23), and so is her first novel, an intense story of youthful anguish. Her title is borrowed from Poet Dylan Thomas's line: "A process in the weather of the heart turns damp to dry." It is seldom enough that novelists of any age gauge the process so surely. The Weather of the Heart gives some meaning to that worn publisher's tag, "a new writer of distinction...
...could hear cars and trucks above him on the highway. They were only 50 feet away. He yelled again & again. The sun came up and dried the night damp, but it burned his right foot-his shoe had been torn off. Nobody answered him all day, and at night he was cold again...