Word: davey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wednesday Night Fights (ABC, 10 p.m.). Two good mixers: World Featherweight Champion Hogan ("Kid") Bassey of Nigeria risking his title against Ohioan Davey Moore in Los Angeles...
...NAKED VILLANY (271 pp.)-Jocelyn Davey-Knopf...
...Author Davey's first novel, A Capitol Offense (TIME, Aug. 6, 1956), a middle-aged Ambrose righted wrongs in Washington, D.C.; the present book, set in 1937, shows the philosopher as a younger man, paddling after evildoers in Oxford and London. Ambrose has just done a job of espionage in civil-war-torn Spain to accommodate a friend in the Foreign Office, and he wants a few weeks of peace before the fall term starts at Oxford. But he needs money (he has worked out a scheme to pauperize the Grimaldis' gambling hell at Monte Carlo...
...slinky Hungarian blonde, really has nothing to do with the plot, or to warn the reader about the sneaky German archaeologist who thinks he has found a piece of a Dead Sea Scroll. But the book is less a whodunit than a witty who-said-it-in Author Davey's phrase, a shakerful of "the martini of human kindness." Very dry, too, without unnecessary olives...
...Usher first bubbled into print, London critics hooted happily that the model for the talkative detective was obviously brilliant, pudgy Sir Isaiah Berlin, Oxford don, author (The Hedgehog and the Fox), cross-country conversationalist and, during World War II, a first secretary at the British embassy in Washington. Jocelyn Davey was a nom de plume, and there seemed good reason to suspect that Sir Isaiah might be Author Davey, as well as Hero Usher. To save a fellow Reform Club member from disrepute, the real author stepped forward: brilliant, pudgy Chaim ("Rab") Raphael, who was at Oxford with Sir Isaiah...