Word: resorters
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...congratulated on your fine cover of Stevenson and its intelligent analysis of Democratic pre-convention strategy. I am in favor of Stevenson, but why does he have to resort to those pitiful campaign tactics as shown by your pictures...
...85th. "I merely say," Georgia's Dick Russell summed up the prospects for civil rights in the 85th, "that when such nefarious schemes as these are presented in the future-and we hear that they will be-there will be members of the Senate who will resort to every weapon at their command to prevent such proposals being imposed on the people...
GENTLY BY THE SHORE, by Alan Hunfer (249 pp.; Rinehart; $2.75), deposits the naked body of an unidentified man on the beach at Starmouth, an English seaside resort. The body shows four stab wounds and unmistakable signs of torture. Chief Inspector Gently, Central Office, C.I.D., a Scotland Yard detective who unfortunately pops peppermints into his mouth during tense moments, gives the tale a tone of well-mannered British calm in spite of the neon-lighted boardwalk setting and a lurid cast of characters, which includes a prostitute, a couple of juvenile delinquents, a village idiot and a gang of international...
...Bavarian mountain resort of Berchtesgaden, where Adolf Hitler used to hole up in his eagle's-nest retreat, a small, grey-haired woman of 60 got notice to get out of her $2.80-a-week room in a shabby row of flats. She was none other than Hitler's sister Paula, who has long gone by the name of Paula Wolf. Paula was not in arrears on her rent, but her landlord seemed to fear that she soon might be. Reason: as the only survivor of Hitler's immediate family. Fraülein Wolf has long hoped...
...Maugham, who typifies a way of life that is aristocratic, self-indulgent, warped, and gone forever. Her eccentricities, together with those of the Charles Addamsish butler, are not so well justified by the playwright. But still, all the characters are tastefully and humorously drawn, without the slightest resort to the burlesque...