Word: heart
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chance for Mr. Lever, stacks everything in favor of the choice of sin by a middling good little man and notes his exhilaration after making it. A fifth, written last year, is called The Hint of an Explanation and deals briefly with the same theological theme as The Heart of the Matter. Besides these, there is a fragment of a novel written in 1936 (he gave it up, wisely, to write Brighton Rock), in which the author intended to use the West African locale later picked as the scene of The Heart of the Matter...
When Armorel falls in love with Gian she devotes her life to improving him, passionately believing that under his simple-simian surface he has a heart of gold (which is true) and a fine intellect (which is not). She goes about her miscalculated mission with such iron ferocity that toward the end of the book some readers will want to liquidate her. They will not have to worry; Gian's nutty old father does that job admirably by slitting her throat, and Gian is convicted of the murder and hanged...
William L. Ransom, New York expert on international law, died of a heart attack Saturday while attending a conference at the Law School. He was 65 years...
...wasn't even speaking to himself after the varsity swimmer's heart yarding 41 to 34 loss to Army Saturday after before the largest crowd of the last in the Indoor Athletic Building. As anchor man in the 400 yard freestyle, Fox churned out the fastest 100 yards in his life, 52.0 seconds, only to such two tenths of a second behind Fary's great Jim Smyly. By winning of event, Smyly untied the meet for second, and clinched second place in the Eastern Intercollegiate League for the badets, Yale has already drubbed Army...
...with the correct martyrdom. But little black-haired Barbara White, who is on screen for ten minutes as the flyer's wife, is on her way to stardom. A mobile face that coordinates magically with her lines enables Miss White to strip everything unessential and distracting from the heart of her role. Kieron Moore stalks sulkily as her moody, proud, and dangerous husband...