Word: devil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...water a few miles off the coast were a sight to behold. According to legend, the largest and most beautiful they named Royale in honor of their sovereign, King Louis XV. The second was named St. Joseph after the patron saint of their voyage, and the third was named Devil's Island because of the angry sea around it. But when the settlers christened the cluster as a whole, they became the authors of one of history's ironies: they called the group the Islands of Salvation...
Looking born for the role, aging (66) Actor Edward G. Robinson triumphed over Old Nick (played by David Wayne) at week's end in NBC-TV's version of Stephen Vincent Benet's The Devil and Daniel Webster. As Webster, Robinson bargained eloquently for the soul of a New England farmer who had sold out to Satan for material wealth. During rehearsals, Rumanian-born Actor Robinson allowed: "I wouldn't want television as a steady diet. It's back-breaking work...
Charley Is My Darling, by Joyce Gary. With his customary warmth and humor, the author in this early novel tells about a little devil of a slum boy evacuated to an English village during the blitz...
...Stephen Vincent Benet's familiar story, about a Yankee farmer who sells his soul to the Devil, stars David Wayne as the prince of darkness, Edward G. Robinson as Daniel Webster. Color...
FICTION 1 . Hawaii, Michener ( 1 )* Advise and Consent, Drury (2) 3. The Devil's Advocate, West (4) 4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (3) 5. Poor No More, Ruark (6) 6. Exodus, Uris (9) 7. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (5) 8. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (8) 9. The War Lover, Hersey (7) 10. Fuel for the Flame, Waugh (10) NONFICTION 1. Act One, Hart (1) 2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (2) 3. May This House Be Safe from Tigers...