Word: gert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Maddened Elephant. Went a famed limerick of the period: There's a wonder/24 family called Stein -There's Gert and there's Ep and there...
...Gert's poems are bunk, Ep's statues are punk, And no one can understand...
...messy Florida separation from Dolly, Wife No. 3, J.J. begged to learn some legal answers to some turgid questions: 1) If he decides to kiss and make up, which woman is his lawful wife? 2) When he labors through his upcoming income-tax return, should he file jointly with Gert or Dolly? 3) If he were to die before the two, which would have the legal claim to a widow's share of his (estimated) $70 million estate? The judge asked for time to think...
...TORTURED EARTH, by Gert Ledig (219 pp.; Henry Regnery; $3.75), is a fearful book about men whose substance has become nothing but flesh and fear. A German battalion is before Leningrad, and this is its obituary. The major in command, learning that his wife and child have been killed back in Germany, orders a senseless attack. Revenge, he hopes, will help his private anguish. But in the end, most are beyond revenge or anguish. At first this seems just another war novel beginning with "knavery rubbing elbows with horror in this louse-ridden cesspool under the hill of death." Slowly...