Word: readings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Then Shah Mohammed Riza Pahlevi of Iran raised his hand. "Just a minute," he said. "You have been very friendly today. But I have had occasion to read in foreign newspapers, including British papers, articles we consider as not reflecting the truth. If any one of you would like to ask questions that would reflect what I would name-ah-funny ideas about things, I would be glad in answering them...
Brad (Richard Hayes) is a Greenwich Village intellectual ("At least. I'm out of work"); Jan (Tani Seitz) is a proper Gramercy Square. Brad is the editor of a far-out little mag called Nerves; Jan has read it, "both issues." When the pair discovers that each has been "in analysis, but not now," they get married and begin making atonal music together. The chief trouble is that Brad's pad is a 24-hour flophouse for his weirdie pals...
...cancer; in Garches, a Paris suburb. At ten Bechet was tooting his clarinet in the dives of Storyville, New Orleans' oldtime red-light district, over the years spread the lusty music of Dixieland up and down the land, across the Atlantic. An eclectic musician who knew Bach, could read music only sketchily, but wrote a ballet, Composer-Performer Bechet wove grand opera into Dixieland, combined some Verdi with Gershwin whenever he played Summertime. In and out of favor in the U.S., he won his greatest success in Europe, became the idol of Paris cafe jazz buffs, who named...
...interested in the market in 1952 when a Toronto nightclub owner paid him off in a mining stock that promptly trebled. (He sold it at that point; it later collapsed.) Darvas trained for the market just as methodically as he had studied his dancing, read some 200 books on the market and the great speculators, spent eight hours a day until saturated. Two of the books he rereads almost every week: Humphrey Neill's Tape Reading and Market Tactics and G. M. Loeb's The Battle for Investment Survival. He still spends about two hours...
Disastrous Comedy. At first, Aimee was thought to have drowned, and two people died in the search for her body. Then Ma Kennedy began to receive ransom notes from alleged kidnapers, and their language read suspiciously like Aimee's own phrasemaking. Finally, 36 days after she disappeared, Aimee reappeared early one morning in the Mexican border town of Agua Prieta, babbling that she had escaped from her kidnapers and wandered all day and night in the desert heat. But her shoes were unscuffed, and she was neither sweaty nor thirsty after her ordeal. Nor was she ever able...