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...York Times Reporter Jay Walz and wife Audrey (a successful writer of whodunits who signs herself Francis Bonnamy) thumbed their way through several dusty archives full of old diaries, memoirs and letters to piece together their fictional account of one of the young republic's juiciest scandals. The real story, the Walzes conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before...
...juiciest plums a young writer can pluck is the $10,000 that Harper & Bros, gives away every two years to the winner of its novel contest. For 1950 the lucky man is a 27-year-old South Carolinian, Max Steele, whose Debby was chosen by a jury of knowing hands: Short Story Writer Katherine Anne Porter, Novelist Glenway Wescott, and San Francisco Chronicle Critic Joseph Henry Jackson. A few of the Harper prizewinners (Wescott's The Grandmothers and Paul Horgan's The Fault of Angels) were widely and deservedly cheered, but the 1950 winner is not in their...
...Juiciest plum is Tracy's role as Arnold Boult (in the play it was Holt), a self-made, Canadian-born tycoon whose greatest pleasure in life lies in spoiling his only son. Young Edward, who never appears in the film, is actually an ingenious peg on which to hang a full-length portrait of his egotistical father. Boult's love for his son is really love of self; his determination to make the world Edward's oyster thinly disguises his own appetite for power...
Texas' Governor Beauford Jester was so boiling mad he told newsmen, "You can't print what I think." The underwater lands are one of the juiciest holdings of the Texas General Land Office, which uses the proceeds to help finance the state's schools; 1947's royalties from submerged oil drilling were $14,800,000. Just before Tom Clark filed suit, the board had collected $2,055,709 from private drillers for leases on 79,000 underwater acres...
This week the Dominion's juiciest diplomatic assignment was still going beg ging. At Lake Success, until a willing and acceptable man is found, the job of representing Canada would probably be filled by External Affairs Minister Louis St. Laurent. In Ottawa, the Prime Minister, behind a screen of refrigerated secretaries, said nothing...