Word: erful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young hoodlums of the village started hanging out at McFall's, but otherwise life in Clayton droned on exactly as before. Then the town experienced an incomprehensible act of violence. Russell Simpson, a 19-year-old local ne'er-do-well, walked into Hathaway's market and lunch counter at closing time, pulled out a pistol and cried, "I want your money!" The 71-year-old grocer grabbed a butcher knife and hacked at the youth's face and arm. Simpson began shooting. His pistol fired, clicked twice, and fired again. The grocer fell dead...
...trilling trumpet is replaced by ancient recorders. Three famous old names are on other new Bach releases: Pablo Casals, in reissues of the unaccompanied Cello Suites Nos. 2 & 3, Wanda Landowska playing the fifth in her harpsichord version of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier (both Victor), and Albert Schweit er (Columbia), in massive, square-hewn readings from the master's organ works Other new records...
Charming Rotter. In a sleazy London bar, Kate Farrant, thirtyish and handsome, waits for her twin brother Anthony, a globe-trotting ne'er-do-well. When he bounces in with "the shallow cheer of an advertisement," she guesses he has lost his job again. To Kate, her charming rotter of a brother is a frightening vision of the failure she might have been, yet she loves him helplessly, as if he were more than a brother. To salvage him, she takes Anthony back with her to Sweden, where she is ensconced as mistress to Erik Krogh, Europe...
...When he was a five-year-old boy in Joplin, Mo., William Edward Cook was pushed out into the world on his own; his ne'er-do-well father abandoned him in a deserted mine cave. Because he had a deformed right eyelid nobody wanted to adopt him. By the time Billy was 21 he had served time in both Missouri reform schools and the state penitentiary, had the words H-A-R-D L-U-C-K tattooed on the fingers of his left hand and had resolved to "live by the gun." During a murderous...
...strong internal evidence that one of these books, And I Learn About People, was actually written by a cocker spaniel named Delmar W. Beman Sr. The author writes as a dog, in the first person, sometimes even breaks into doggerel. Sample verses to a watchdog: Watching o'er one's mind and soul, / Watching o'er one's kin and friend, / Make time and living worth the while, / Breed strength and sureness / And warmness of smile...