Word: linda
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Born. To Air Force Lieut. General William E. Hall, 52, Commanding General, Continental Air Command, and Marguerite ("Maggie") Higgins Hall, 39, Washington correspondent for the New York Herald Tribune: a second child, first daughter; in Washington. Name: Linda Marguerite. Weight...
...windups of multiple novels, The Mansion ties up so many loose ends that the string can sometimes hardly be seen for the knots. For a good deal of the way, The Mansion recapitulates the first two books. Flem's dirty deals,Wife Eula's electric sexiness, Daughter Linda's womanly inheritance from her mother, nice Lawyer Stevens' frustrated hankering for them both-none of these can easily be appreciated without some help from The Hamlet and The Town...
Keeping Up with the Times. In this volume, Faulkner carries the story well beyond World War II, and it is precisely the new material that seems least convincing. Characters get in and out of wars in a way that seems merely to pass time. Linda marries a New York sculptor who is also a Jew and a Communist, but by the time he gets himself killed fighting in the Spanish Civil War, the whole episode has the look of merely trying to keep up with the times. Jefferson, Miss, (really Faulkner's home town of Oxford) sees dramatic changes...
Miguel Antonio Enrique Francisco Estrada (John Saxon), a first-generation Puerto Rican-New Yorker, is just out of stir and determined to go straight; he is a solid, workmanlike thug, though, and the old gang wants him back. They tempt him with a sex moll (Linda Cristal), "just up from Puerto Rico and full of sugar cane." Will he have one lump or two? He hesitates-then takes the whole bowl...
Army Way. In Tokyo, U.S. Army Sergeant Jack Lovett, having named his first six children Linda Fay, Larry Gay, Garry Ray, Glinda Kay, Brinda May and Winda Gay, ran out of ideas for his expected seventh, advertised in Stars and Stripes for a name to fit the rhyme...