Word: midnight
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...correspondent covering the campaign, this was a great convenience; but for the mother of two small children (Monica is the wife of London Timesman David Roy Elston), it was a towering nuisance. Before rallies, campaign managers spent half the nights tuning up loudspeakers, one to outblast the other. One midnight some 50 babies of the neighborhood could be heard bawling as loudspeakers blared over and over: "One, two, three . . . One two three...
Wrote Editor Deshais: "Some of the society women of Chicago are drinking themselves silly. 'Round the clock they go, lapping it up from high noon till they reach another high at midnight. By their own admission some of them are consuming from twelve to 20 ounces a day ... I love society and I don't like to think there are any lady lushes in society. [But] some women who lead brisk social lives can consume . . . nearly a gallon a week...
Monitor (Sat. 8 a.m. to Sun. midnight, NBC). A marathon, catchall weekend show of music, drama, comedy...
...TALE FOR MIDNIGHT (354 pp.)-Frederic Prokosch-Little, Brown...
Rotter's Rotter. The Cenci story has fascinated writers for more than three centuries. Plays, poems, novels and histories have dealt with its dark and bloody theme, and still, as in Frederic Prokosch's new novel, A Tale for Midnight, it has a surefire appeal that does not suffer from retelling. Author Prokosch has a hankering for the exotic and the violent (Night of the Poor, The Seven Who Fled). In the Cenci tale, he has contented himself with sticking pretty close to the facts. But he has given them a rich setting of sounds and smells...