Word: evan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHILDREN OF THE BLACK-HAIRED PEOPLE (435 pp.) - Evan King - Rinehart($5). THE RICE-SPROUT SONG (182 pp.)-Eileen Chang-Scribner...
...screen as in the novel by Evan Hunter, Blackboard Jungle suffers seriously from the vices of professional indignation, special pleading and general rostrumism. Sometimes it seems to raise false eyebrows and to grit false teeth. The resolution of the plot is so facile as to appear insincere. But the picture also has the virtues of its vices: social conscience, honest anger and a narrow but vital kindliness...
...matches were held to qualify teams for the League finals at B.U. this Saturday. High scorer for the Crimson was John Leness who made 280 out of 300 points. Rounding out the top five men were Bon Dane with 277, John Liebeskind with 274, Evan Spelfogel with 273, and captain John Hessel with...
...writers make New York City their headquarters, and most of those tend to settle in the outer metropolitan fringe between the gentlemen's estates and small farms. Example: having sold his first novel, The Blackboard Jungle, to the Ladies' Home Journal (for $35,000), 27-year-old Evan Hunter is moving from a Hicksville, L.I. ranch house to eastern Westchester County...
...Evan R. Dale, 38, is a chunky labor leader who has shouldered his way to the top of the A.F.L.'s Southern Illinois Hod Carriers, Building and Common Laborers Union. He likes to wear wide-brimmed hats, collect expensive shotguns, throw parties at his hunting lodge. He also likes to mix in politics; in 1952 he was a labor consultant to the Republican National Committee...