Word: looseness
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Your story "Decision" under the heading "Heroes" [TIME, July 22] is an absolute masterpiece of literary art: "Veteran Loos, like the other tourists, had a moment for decision. He made it. . . ." and ". . . Then Orville Loos and the boy who was his friend for a few seconds were dead in the...
Anita Loos, literary executor of the golddigger (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes), threw up her hands at the wild younger generation, came out for more parental discipline-"you ought to smack him in the puss." She considered bobby-soxers inferior to flappers. "The flappers washed their underwear," said she. "They were neat...
Behind the rail guarding the summit of Yosemite's misty, snow-swollen Vernal Falls, 21-year-old Orville Loos, just out of the Navy and still in uniform, gaped -with the other tourists, listened to the mighty cataract pounding fearsomely on the jagged boulders 320 feet below. It would...
Then he heard a scream. Eleven-year-old Keene Freeman, son of famed Washington, D.C. neurologist Dr. Walter Freeman, had escaped his father's eye for a moment, and slipped into the racing torrent while trying to retrieve a canteen. He was headed for the falls. As the boy...
He caught the boy' shirtfront, lost it, groped, seized him again and held on. From the platform, the tourists caught a fleeting glimpse of two heads in the curve of water at the fall's edge. Then Orville Loos and the boy who was his friend for a...