Word: down-at-heel
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Actress Taylor plays a middleaged, down-at-heel former Southern belle, long ago deserted by her husband, and living with her feckless dreamer of a son (Eddie Dowling) and shy, scared, crippled daughter (Julie Haydon) in a St. Louis alley. Nagging, grandiloquizing about her mint-julepy, porticoed youth, absurd in her foolishness, pathetic in her pretensions, she wants passionately to get her daughter married, demands endlessly that her son bring "gentlemen callers" to the house. At length he brings one-a gum-chewing extrovert who, though touched by the girl's plight, counts the minutes till he can escape...
...BOWLING BUYS A NEWSPAPER-Donald Henderson-Random House ($2). Mr. William Bowling is a slightly down-at-heel English "gentleman" who kills and kills and kills and never quite gets caught. Vivid, bizarre, well written and, except for a final sop to the angels, an engrossing exercise in amorality...
From pontoon gear, the Navy's all-purpose "mechano" set, they have built landing barges, floating drydocks, piers, floats for cranes to transform the sleepy, down-at-heel French colonial port of Noumea, New Caledonia, into one of the Navy's greatest advance bases...
MURDER RENTS A ROOM - Sara Elizabeth Mason- Crime Club ($2). A Yankee boarder at a down-at-heel Alabama plantation helps a slow but sure Southern sheriff unriddle two murders that disrupt the peace of a poor, proud family. Crime, romance, authentic Southern atmosphere and rule-of-thumb detecting are satisfac torily mixed...
...sisters Cateau and Magdelon de la Louppe were born in the early 16305. They were among the most beautiful women in Europe. Starting as down-at-heel petty noblewomen, both made brilliant marriages, both took many lovers, both were involved in flamboyant scandals, both faded into lonely piety, and both lived, voraciously, to be 80. Aside from these parallels, their lives differed as sharply as their characters...