Word: friend
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Girl Friend...
Right now the group is marking time until summer, when three or four members will leave to find Fernandoz. "We're already studying manuscripts on him," Liebman states. "I know that the story is true. My own girl friend...
...spite of all this, in 1912 Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch (pronounced Cootch, "not like a sofa") was appointed King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at Cambridge University. "I'm in a hideous funk about it," he wrote to a friend. But the funk didn't last long, and in time Q became one of the most popular lecturers the university had. When he died four years ago at 81, he was still lecturing. Last week, in a short, intimate biography (Arthur Quiller-Couch; Macmillan, $3.50), his friend Fred Brittain, Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, tried to tell...
...When I travel I get moody," says Rocky Graziano. Out in Oakland, Calif., far from his Brooklyn haunts, Rocky was training for a fight with Oldtimer Fred Apostoli when a mood struck him. He wired a friend for $300. When the money came, he hopped a plane, unkempt, unshaven and still dressed in his training clothes. A snowstorm that grounded the plane in Chicago didn't stop him; without bothering to cash the unused part of his plane ticket, he climbed aboard a train for New York...
...colonel develops a nasty habit of passing the death sentence on everybody who frustrates or annoys him. Sooner or later, most of his ex-Army pals get on his nerves. Eventually he gets so careless about who is hanged that his wife (Ellen Drew) and his best friend (William Hoiden) run out on him. A lot of the town-folk still regard him as a hero, but at this point the movie becomes an unusual western by seeming to ask: "Is there a psychiatrist in the house...