Word: latelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Heimito von Doderer, 70, Austria's most formidable novelist, whose widely praised The Demons, a 1,334-page epic 25 years in the writing of Vienna's whipped-cream and coffee-house society in the late 1920s, introduced him to the English-speaking world in 1961, after which two more (Every Man a Murderer, The Waterfalls of Slunj) of his many novels were translated into English, but neither so successfully; following abdominal surgery; in Vienna...
...consummate cracksman and his accomplice (Shirley MacLaine) as a dumb Dora who knows just enough to keep her mouth shut. The pair arrives in the Middle East, where Caine smoothly contrives to encounter a gullible Moslem millionaire (Herbert Lom). Flabbergasted by the girl's resemblance to his late beloved wife, the millionaire instantly invites both Caine and MacLaine to dine in his private apartments, and after dinner is absurdly pleased to toddle off with Shirley on a tour of the Arab quarter. With the coast clear, Caine simply ducks back into the millionaire's flat and steals...
...fact, Frank Elli, now 41, had been in the pen on one rap or another eleven times since he was mustered out of the Navy 20 years ago. Apparently it occurred to him late that crime was not his true calling. Through a correspondence course offered by the University of Minnesota, Elli discovered that he had a greater talent for writing. The resulting novel, a tense, minute-by-minute account of a prison riot, shows that he has a born storyteller's way with a yarn...
...trouble is that the book, despite the obvious authenticity of its setting, is too reminiscent of all the old-fashioned prison stories that cram late-night...
...address, and flew down to the ranch last week to talk it over with Johnson. Yet there have been no meaningful hints about what Johnson intends to concentrate on, and the silence has led, in fact, to speculation that the State of the Union address may be delayed until late January instead of being delivered shortly after the Congress convenes...