Word: reno
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Married. Erskine Caldwell, 53, novelist of Georgia's poor whites (Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre), and Virginia Moffett Fletcher, 37; he for the fourth time (his second: Photographer Margaret Bourke-White), she for the second; in Reno...
Baby Doll is less salacious than either its ads or the short on Reno which runs with it. It is not a comedy, but it is by Tennessee Williams. Based on Twenty-Seven Wagonsful of Cotton, there is rapine, conflagration, and Southern talk, at the Metropolitan. Opens at 9:40 in the morning, for those who really need distraction...
From boys and girls all over the U.S. the scrawled letters poured in, some peremptory, some urgent-all rather vague. "Dear Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce," wrote one boy from Reno. "We are reading about coal. Could you send some pamphlets and a piece of coal." A pupil in El Dorado, Ark. asked for "pictures and postcards." He did not say what sort of pictures or of what, but he did provide one pertinent bit of information: "I am in Mrs. Jackson's room." Said a brief note from Southwick, Mass.: "Will you send me all the information about your...
...Tender Trap. In Reno, lacking 50? of the $10 he needed to bail out his wife, who was jailed on a drunkenness charge, Marvin Wheeler light-fingered some brass plumbing fixtures from the police station, sold them to get the half dollar and freed his wife, was jailed himself for petty theft, was still locked up three days later when his wife was jugged again for drunkenness...
...marriage, Gracie says delicately, was "dissolved." Actually, she got a plain Reno divorce in 1928, lived to marry a New York investment counselor named Tellesforo Casanova. After a few years she wrote a novel setting Hal and the world to rights about the whole thing. The book was called Half a Loaf, and its heroine remarked, after leaving her writer-husband: "She had licked the cream off the milk pail; she had had the fresh half of the loaf." Twenty-five years later Gracie evidently thinks that bland diet...