Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALFIE FINDS "THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD," by Charles Keeping (Watts; $3.95). From England comes one of the most beautifully illustrated books of the season-a simple story of a young cockney lad's adventure crossing the Thames by ferry on a foggy London afternoon. The paintings are brightly colored but muted by a haze that evokes the London atmosphere and a small boy's bewilderment...
...Jungle is a classic of American social reform, and it put Sinclair first in the company of early 20th century muckrakers: Frank Norris (The Octopus, The Pit), Ida Tarbell (The History of the Standard Oil Company), and Jack London (The War of the Classes). Sinclair started a short-lived Utopian community in New Jersey, called the Helicon Home Colony, with the $30,000 he earned from The Jungle...
...Coincidentally with Beatle John Lennon's conviction by a London court for possessing marijuana. Lennon, who said through his lawyer that he had now "cleansed himself" of narcotics, was fined...
...bottle of Pabst. From coast to coast, mashed potatoes appear on menus as "snowflake, creamery-whipped potatoes"; all vegetables, whether frozen, canned or left over from yesterday, are called "garden fresh." In Minneapolis, broiled rock lobster tails turn into "Queen of Hearts"; in Los Angeles, capon becomes "Tower of London"; in New York, string beans metamorphose into "Long Johns." The Hawaiian Hut in Portland, Me., offers its Special Tiki Chicken on this verbal platter: "Truly a dish fit for the gods-beyond description." But any diner could describe it easily-chicken with bean sprouts...
...heroine (Genevieve Waite) is a Sassoon-style adolescent come down to London to study art. Soon artists start studying Joanna. She plays musical beds with every boy who rubs against her, makes friends with the world, and generally lives without any of the conventional moral hang-ups. The trouble is that the freedom bag turns out to be a prison without walls. Pleasure is everywhere, but Joanna is nowhere, until she makes a commitment by falling in love with a brooding black man (Calvin Lockhart). The affair winds down to tragedy; mixed up with the Mob, he gets a long...