Word: palming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Many competent authorities believe that the Navy's great carriers are too vulnerable to venture in wartime near an enemy-held coast. Then the jet sea bombers, say their admirers, would come into their own. In fog-dimmed inlets dr palm-fringed lagoons, they could rendezvous with the submarines-and take off with their loads of H-bombs before the enemy realized that they were around...
...Bruce Fearing is the best of a mediocre bunch of stories. A penetrating study of an habitual young liar and his motives for lying, Fearing's story is written and concluded strikingly. His style, however, betrays a small debt to Faulkner ("Jimmy looked at the crude statuette in the palm of his hand. LIAR, LIAR, LIAR, he squeezed it, hoping it would crumble to pieces. . ."), a debt which is hardly concealed by the use of capitals. Although Fearing's story is not likely to live on in anthologies, it is still the best in a rather scant summer issue...
JOHN R. WILLIAMS West Palm Beach...
...movie piled up a box office take of $12 million and is still going. Like many a giant industry, the Caine even spawned byproducts, e.g., the manufacture of "Queeg balls," modeled on the two steel bearings that the skipper of the Caine obsessively rolled in his left palm whenever his nerves were shaky...
...taken an overdose of sleeping pills. And after two years of Ava he was admitted to a New York hospital one night with several scratches on his lower arm. The decisive moment, however, came one night in 1952 when Frank threw her out of his house in Palm Springs. Since then, Ava has flirted with both Frankie and a divorce, but gotten together with neither of them...