Word: ginned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sits Julie Harris, trig though middleaged, lovely though unhappy. She needs transportation. There stands young Marco St. John, tall, dark, handsome and ever so resourceful. He has a motorcycle to share with the lady. As added enticements, he also offers Julie a bottle of ouzo (which is stronger than gin and sweeter than licorice) and a refreshing nocturnal skinny dip in the wine-dark Aegean. What is a twice-divorced damsel of 40 to do? She accepts, naturally...
...illustrations. They are composed in strong patterns of dark and light -- like the black and white judgements of the seeker-voice which moves through the poems demanding experience. The figures of the cover are aspects of this split soul -- of which part wants rest, and part wants "dancing, gin, and girls." But the real land met in either search is only bare rock or rotting flesh -- "How sour the knowledge the travellers bring away...
...Gin rummy, as played in Hollywood, is not always a gentleman's game. Even so, the games at the Friars' Club over a ten-month period during 1962 and 1963 were something out of the ordinary. Camera Industrialist Theodore Brislcin, for example, lost $220,000, Shoe Millionaire Harry Karl dropped $80,-000, and such cool hands as Phil Silvers, Zeppo Marx and Tony Martin lost heavily. An investigation by the FBI followed, and last week five players in the games (two real estate developers, an art collector, an investor and a professional card shark) were found guilty...
...somewhat ponderous, unmusical delivery. And when one of the voices belongs to Comedienne Nancy Walker-solid and scrappy as ever, with her hair dyed firehouse red-the incongruity is almost painful. The play's central character, a mysterious psychiatrist called Sir Henry Harcourt-Reilly, who is given to gin-and-water and gnomic observations, is played by Sydney Walker with a kind of arch exaggeration that would surely prove more off-putting than compelling to the delicate souls he is out to snare...
...Gin-Washed Shores. Back in 1841, Cook's started out as a temperance evangelist's venture into group travel. An ex-printer named Thomas Cook, busy saving souls on the gin-washed shores of the British Industrial Revolution, chartered a train for 570 followers to attend a temperance convention. The group traveled in open tube cars from Leicester to Loughborough and back for one shilling per head. Soon Cook began organizing group trips for a profit, and his company, Thomas Cook, Excursionist Agent, was firmly launched during Queen Victoria's Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1851. To this...