Word: mouthfulls
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In a poll of the world's literary critics, Nobel Prizewinner Thomas Mann would probably win the nomination as the greatest living novelist. He would not, however, win any prizes as the most read-or most readable. His ninth and latest novel, Dr. Faustus, is probably his most difficult...
¶The New York World-Telegram was whooping up its favorite hot-weather story: pollution of Manhattan's beaches. The U.S. Public Health Service, said the World-Telegram, considers any water with a count of more than 1,000 coliform bacteria (pollution by sewage) per 100 cubic centimeters (a...
"A Squeak Like Mother's." The role of Fuffy, Judy's disconcerting chum, is also a neat bit of typecasting. She is Beverly Wills, 14, the strident, skinny daughter of strident, skinny Comedienne Joan Davis. Agent Polan vetoed more than 70 candidates before Beverly appeared, but Beverly was...
The mother, obsessed with her search for the child that she cannot believe has died, walks the endless, desolate German Autobahnen from D.P. camp to D.P. camp. The child, who has had his power of speech, his very memory torn out of him, is a pure derelict, looking for nobody...
Tears & Fears. Among the tales (most-apocryphal) which encrust his legendary name is one of a trip through the desert with several cars full of Legionnaires. One car turned over, killing two of the men. Soon afterward the party stopped for lunch at a Bedouin encampment. To show proper sorrow...