Word: paged
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crime Commission, it must be noted, displayed little subtlety or knowledge of psychology in the manner in which it issued the final 400-page report on the subject of its three responsibilities: determining whether organized illegal gambling exists in Massachusetts, what is its scope, and what ought to be done about it. And it left the world after a four-year existence, with few friends among the public or in the state government...
...minutes Philip finished, but the laughter and cheers of his audience echoed far beyond the walls of Royal Festival Hall. Cried the Daily Sketch on its front page: "What should we do about a Prince who can capture the most difficult audience in the world? Well, if we've any sense we should put him on TV. Forward BBC! Forward ITV! Get moving!" With uncharacteristic swiftness, the BBC did move, announced that Philip would repeat his talk over a nationwide hookup...
...ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought a "five-or six-page treatment" of the story. Where is Rich now? "In Europe," retorts King. "I'm looking for him now. He's around 34, and he wears a goatee...
...OBSESSION OF EMMET BOOTH, by Martha Albrand (240 pp.; Random House: $3.50), is a psychological suspense story, and the suspense derives from the question whether Beauty will succumb to the Beast. The Beauty of the story, widow of a paragonish professor, is Miranda Page, who looks like something out of Harper's Bazaar but talks like something out of Harper's Magazine. The Beast is not really beastly, merely unpleasant: Emmet Booth is nearly 50, short, balding, a self-made millionaire of lowly origins whose monster of an inferiority feeling must be appeased by constant sacrifices. Unsatiated...
...people could be more different -Emmet Booth living in the kind of nouveau riche luxury that always seems rented, Miranda in the shabby comfort of a Greenwich Village house that is acrawl with Siamese cats and intellectual gentility. What Miranda Page would call a "relationship" seems impossible between two people so alien to each other. But as a veteran of suspense fiction (The Mask of Alexander), Author Albrand keeps the plot from collapsing. Booth inexorably moves in on Miranda with hammer locks of misunderstanding. In her politeness he manages to see incipient love, and in his calculated humility...