Word: heartbreaking
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...hero's little brother in an otherwise routine south western, Elvis Presley all but steals the show from such better-knowrn players as Richard Egan. Debra Paget and Mildred Dunnock. Hollywood, moreover, foresees a box-office bonanza when the millions who buy Presley's pressings (Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog) go to see his first picture-and that will really be a steal...
This first novel is the year's most beautifully written love story. Set in Budapest in the lost era between the two world wars, it begins with a casual pickup on the Danube Corso and ends in heartbreak as poignant as the last act of Camille. The book, like the play, is about a girl with tuberculosis, but Author Boros' Dame aux Camélias is no languishing tragedienne drowning in a sea of self-sacrifice. Instead, young Lalla is self-sufficient, cheeky, preoccupied not with "how to live but how to stay alive...
...Cheer & Heartbreak. Lowney has fed, clothed and sheltered as many as 17 writers at one time, currently has only four in residence. But she is often disappointed. The maverick personalities she attracts-social rebels, ex-jailbirds, protesting college boys-sometimes desert the colony at the crucial moment. Says Lowney: "I've had four books just about finished here that walked out. Good books. It's heartbreaking." But she is consoled by the fact that two novels are now in progress at the colony and six completed ones are currently in the hands of publishers...
...last big obstacle, "Heartbreak Hill", Iglesias had increased his to almost a quarter of a mile, with Reider and Schlaeppi still ahead of Abramawitz. Reider steadily pushed ahead of Schlaeppi to finish second, unofficially by a comfortable margin...
...armed themselves with "everything we can get our hooks on," and formed a skirmish line before the mob in the courthouse square. "Lock them up if they give you any lip," ordered the submachine gun-toting commander of the vigilantes, a lawyer and paratroop veteran of Korea's Heartbreak Ridge named Leo W. Grant Jr. Said one of Grant's citizens: "Hell, it ain't a matter of wanting or not wanting niggers in the school, it's a matter of who's going to run the town, the Government or that mob out there...