Word: rumours
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thieves of Love. Caitlin sizzled over the sexual autograph hunters who stalked Dylan "in packs"-"these thieves of my love [who] were candidly, if not prepossessingly, spreadeagled. from the first tomtomed rumour of a famous name." On occasion, Dylan allowed himself to be caught by the hunters, and Caitlin makes no secret of the fact that she had fans of her own whom she was glad to oblige ("There is no doubt, in some people's minds, as to my super bitchery"). They hated each other for their infidelities: "It seems extraordinary to me now that...
This is the second such charge this fall. Two weeks ago Brown's Dean of Students, Edward Durgin, wrote the Dean's Office here to "seek inforuation" about the rumour that Harvard students took six fraternity hom flags the weekend of November...
...sold only 2,575 copies), Greene convinced the chairman of Heinemann's that a promising novelist should not be wasting his energies in the Times letters department, and got the publisher to subsidize him for three years. Greene's next two novels (The Name of Action, Rumour at Nightfall) must have made his publishers think twice about their investment. Both were murkily intense, heavily plotted melodramas that Greene has since tried hard to forget. Orient Express (1932) made the publishers feel better. A tightly written suspense story, it made Greene a popular writer. Hollywood turned it into...