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Word: mintner (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Side by side with Dr. Eichner's misadventures runs the dewy romance of Nurse Babs Mintner and her college-boy lover. This minor theme leads to the funniest scene of an often funny novel: the seduction of featherheaded Babs which takes place one rainy night in a drive-in theater and rages through three continuous showings of Wuthering Heights. There are other comic set pieces, notably a TV quiz called What's My Disease?, where panelists triumphantly identify gruesome samples of elephantiasis, icthyosis and multiple goiter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

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