Word: donald
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...camp set. But some of the best contemporary mystery writers remain curiously underappreciated. Among them are Englishman Andrew Garve (The Cuckoo Line Affair); John D. MacDonald, the O'Hara of the whodunit; Australia's Arthur W. Upfield, whose detective hero, Napoleon Bonaparte, is half aborigine; Donald Hamilton, whose Matt Helm is a sort of Yankee 007; and Ed McBain, a master of suspenseful prose, who in real life is Evan Hunter, author of The Blackboard Jungle...
...therefore enraged when town and county cops turned their backs while whites beat and otherwise harassed civil rights marchers in Bogalusa a couple of weeks ago. Christenberry cited Bogalusa's Public Safety Commissioner Arnold Spiers, Police Chief Claxton Knight, and Patrolman Donald Penton for civil contempt of court. Last week, during hearings, the judge was further enraged to see films of Bogalusa demonstrations which showed whites waving Confederate flags everywhere. "Except on the post office, are there any American flags there anywhere?" he asked. When some courtroom spectators laughed, Christenberry went on: "This is a serious business. Every picture...
...major impetus for this Draconian doctrine traces back to 1911 when an upstate New York gravestone dealer named Donald MacPherson was driving his new Buick at 15 m.p.h. A wheel flew off, the car flipped, and MacPherson wound up in the hospital. He sued the Buick Co. for negligence in failing to inspect the defective wheel. Buick raised what was then a plausible defense: it had never sold MacPherson anything directly, since he bought from a dealer. Therefore, said Buick, it could not be held liable to MacPherson for negligence...
Economists use computers and complicated formulas to plot changes in the cost of living, but the U.S. housewife has a simpler way. Says Mrs. Donald R. Petit, a Miami mother of three: "I spend $25 to $30 a week for groceries, and it comes out to $5 a bag. Last week, for the first time, they put $25 worth of groceries into only four bags...
...hunchback's brace, must be a real contortionist to get through the evening; she plays the role quietly and competently. A performer with greater vitality might somehow have been able to suggest the importance and the ominousness of this figure. The production's asscts include a splendid set by Donald Mullin and fine lighting by Don Cate...