Word: fog
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Head (Joe Mooney Quartet; Decca LP). Mood music, vintage 1947-49, by a man who can make an accordion eloquent; and sing with a dreamy fog in his throat. Among his oldies: Manhattan, Suddenly...
Kodak Request Performance (Wed. 8 p.m., NBC). Charles Bickford in The Woman at Fog Point...
TOUR DE FORCE, by Christianna Brand (272 pp.; Scribner; $2.75), might be regarded as a superior mystery if it had been written by a newcomer, but from the author of Fog of Doubt it is disappointing. This time Author Brand blithely switches the point of view from chapter to chapter, for no apparent reason. The payoff to her mystery, furthermore, is a disastrously frayed cliché. But the Brand strength lies in a vivid setting and amusing characters. Her setting in this case-an independent kingdom on an island in the Mediterranean-is as believable and as funny as something...
Maria de Jesus Victoriano, a peasant woman of Carvalhinho, was on her way to the top of 2,800-ft. Mount Carvalho one day last week to gather hay. "I was looking at the sky and hoping the sun would drive the fog away," she said later. "Then I heard a great hissing and roaring overhead. I thought the mountain below me had exploded." For the next few seconds, shock after shock rent the earth all around her, sending ribbons and streams of flame and debris in all directions. "It was terrible," she said, "but the silence that followed...
...witnessed Portugal's grimmest air disaster. Shortly before she heard them roaring above her head, twelve U.S.-built Thunderjets of the Portuguese air force left the Ota air base to take part in an air force show to the north at Coimbra. None of them could see the fog-shrouded mountain on which Maria stood beneath them. As they hurtled forward in tight formation, the four top planes cleared the peaks without harm. The eight planes below them plowed head-on into the mountain, killing all eight pilots and reducing Portugal's jet strength in one blow...