Word: hook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quick with a Hook. In short, The Little Princesses has only slightly more human interest and gossip value than a Court Circular. But it is written in a much more affable style, and since the book concerns one of the world's best-loved families it is almost certain to become a bestseller. The best of the book is a small body of anecdote that Author Crawford retails with all the backstairs skill of an experienced court attendant. Items...
Fish Story. Off Brielle, N.J., Sigmund Scharf caught 14 sharks with one hook by hauling in a six-foot brown shark which later produced a litter of 13 in the boat's cockpit...
...Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers, to assume responsibility for Formosa's integrity pending the signing of a Japanese peace treaty. But Chiang insists that there be no infringement of China's sovereignty or administrative integrity. Such a move, of course, would take the Nationalists off the hook, and place a U.S. guarantee on the retention of Formosa...
...newsmen. "In no case do I think the Soviet Union would risk becoming the aggressor." Then he added that he is against blocs and spheres of influence and that the best way to settle international disputes is through the U.N. Like a clever angler, Totalitarian Tito hoped to hook more Western support with his new tactical line...
...this, mingled with spots of dancing and pleasant Leonard Bernstein music, provides nice unorthodox eye & ear entertainment. Jean Arthur makes a brightly boyish Peter Pan, Boris Karloff an appealingly unctuous Captain Hook. At times the syrup gets pretty thick and the fantasy pretty thin; Peter. Pan is not Alice in Wonderland. It is much less dazzling as well as much less daring. But however little a masterpiece, the play is now safely a classic...