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JUBB, by Keith Waterhouse. Through the weird alchemy of talent and restraint, British Novelist Waterhouse (Billy Liar) turns the story of a lonely voyeur into a novel with both compassion and comedy...
...Lucas and Considine reports aroused predictable responses. The British denied all accusations of perfidy. Truman and Eisenhower refused to comment. A longtime MacArthur aide, Major General Courtney Whitney, called Lucas' piece mostly "fantasy" and "fictional" nonsense. Lucas replied by calling Whitney a "liar...
...BILLY LIAR. Working-class life in Britain inspires a social cipher (Tom Courtenay) to imagine a faster, funnier world where his own word...
Sexless Harem. Then one unfortunate day, Owen has an impulse toward candor and tells his mistress he has a wife and his wife he has a mistress. Neither seems particularly surprised, for, as Sybil puts it, Owen has always been "a bit of a liar." Sybil goes dutifully up to London for the great confrontation scene. Finding Alex feverishly ill, she hustles the girl down to Oxfordshire to convalesce under Owen's roof. Nights, wife and mistress sit contentedly together doing jigsaw puzzles; occasionally they dissolve into helpless laughter at the thought of Owen's predicament. The poor...
...Fidel Castro. Last week, when Castro accused the base of using suction pumps to draw off on the sly some 114,000 gallons of Cuban water daily, Bulkeley replied: "Hogwash." Guantanamo was using its own water - the mains from Cuban territory were shut tight. "Castro is calling me a liar," said the admiral, "and I'm mad." Bulkeley then ordered workmen with saws and acetylene torches to the scene, watched as they cut the two pipes leading into the base from Cuba, thus shutting off Castro's water once and for all. Said Bulkeley: "That...