Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with a gang of gamblers, a blackmailer, three corpses, the Los Angeles police force, and the old bulldog's unpleasant son (Conrad Janis). In the long run, he breaks the sinister hold Miss Bates has en Miss Guild, and takes an affectional full nelson on the young woman himself...
...main things that is intended to be exciting about this adaptation of Novelist Chandler's The High Window is the spectacle of a pretty girl learning, ever so shyly, how to enjoy being touched. Miss Guild has considerable prettiness and a kind of puppyish innocence in these scenes, but they are still somewhat embarrassing. Mr. Montgomery is a little too suave and petulant to be convincing as Marlowe. There are, however, some fair bursts of violence and some good sets...
...polysyllables). He is sure that all a songwriter has to do to panic Park Avenue nightclubbers is to write lyrics that insult them enough. But when the Big Chance comes, the customers don't see it his way and Eddie and his good friends Miss Edwards, Constance Moore and Gil Lamb are suddenly at liberty...
...people of the novel are the inhabitants of a Maine coastal village and a few summer visitors who stayed. The youngsters whose brief love affair is doomed by deep differences in background and small-town backbiting are unusual only because Miss Athas reveals their emotions so delicately...
...Miss Athas is a New Englander herself, from Gloucester, Mass. She attended high school in Chapel Hill, N.C. with the two daughters of Betty (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn) Smith, and got encouragement in her writing from their mother. The Weather of the Heart has its faults, mostly structural and obviously resulting from lack of experience. They will be forgiven easily by readers whose weary eyes have lately seen a lot of old formulas passing as new fiction...