Word: novels
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...page historical novel, Remembrance Rock, completed, Author-Farmer Carl Sandburg took some time off for his other big interest. A photographer spotted him on his Flat Rock, N.C. farm exchanging appraising glances with Alison, a champion milk-producing goat...
...limitations are largely those of its star, though it manages some tension in such rough & tumble scenes as the one where Don José and Garcia (Victor Jory) hack at each other with trowel-sized knives. The story is based on the Prosper Mérimée novel and does not make use of the music from Bizet's opera. It is prettier and more exciting than the opera could ever be without the score-but nothing about it begins to match Bizet's music...
Arthur Murray has been persuaded to teach the "Carmen Flamenco"; Novelist Sophie Kerr has ground out a 30-part serialization of the movie that the N.E.A. syndicate will offer to some 600 newspapers; Pocket Books, Inc. has issued a 25? edition of the Mérimée novel, plugging the movie on the cover; John Powers has selected a Carmen-type model; Manhattan Psychiatrist Dr. Frederic Wertham has put Carmen on the couch for a psychoanalytical study and has concluded: "The world is full of Carmens...
...also engages in an unusually brutal fight with the heavy's henchman (Forrest Tucker). One novel detail of the fight: they stomp one another's trigger fingers into bone splinters. When, at last, it is made clear that Scott is avenging his murdered fiancee, it is easy enough to understand why he hates the heavy and turns up his nose at the girls; the only mystery is why he waited till the last reel to explain himself...
...Roosevelt to bone up on rockets and jets. This is to prepare him for a visit to Germany to quiz a German scientist (anti-Nazi) on German progress in developing the rocket bomb. Thereafter the episodes are what might be expected: the high moment of almost every Lanny Budd novel is an escape from the Gestapo, or the rescue of someone from a Fascist torture chamber...