Word: shirt
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Classes had been going for a week at the Edgar Allen Poe elementary school in well-to-do south Houston. But the principal, Mrs. R. E. Doty, took it as a matter of course when a slight, pleasant man in sports shirt and slacks walked into the school lobby at 10 o'clock one morning last week and announced that he wanted to register his sandy-haired, seven-year-old, Dusty, in second grade. She was only mildly surprised when Paul Harold Orgeron, 47, said sheepishly that he had just come to town and did not know his address...
...tourist got off a plane in Port-au-Prince, told immigration officials he was Miles Gaham, 35, a dentist from Omaha. The Haitians looked right past his white cap, tight woolen shirt, dark glasses and absurd phony mustache, said: "Welcome, Marlon Brando." The actor had brought along a pretty Eurasian girl, who said her name was Timy Van Nga; occupation: student. In a U-drive-it Volkswagen, the two demonstrated the close relationship between love and Haiti, thrill-riding the island's mountain curves, dancing to voodoo drums at the nightclub Bacoulou. By week's end, when...
History for Support. Will the paintings be found? History is full of successful art thefts. A Louvre workman named Vincenzo Peruggia carted away the $1,000,000 Mona Lisa in broad daylight by stripping it from its frame and tucking it under his shirt; he was caught two years later only because he tried to sell it to an honest Florence art dealer. Three centuries earlier, the Duke of Modena became so enraptured with Correggio's Virgin with St. Magdalen and St. Lucy that he had it stolen from the church of Albinea, and it has never been found...
...slacks, sandals, open-throated sports shirt, he may loaf in the garden during nonworking intervals; if it is Sunday, he will stroll to the village pub (The Hoops) for a half-pint of bitter. More often of an afternoon, he will show a visitor about his property, explaining sculptured works in a soft, eager voice almost denuded of its Yorkshire burr, describing with a loving caress along a bronze flank why it takes two or three weeks of rubbing, gouging, sanding and polishing to finish a freshly cast figure: "It's the putting on of skin." In a corner...
Wine Is the Cup. If virtue was always rewarded, the conventional virtues are not always practiced. Strong wine rather than tea is the cup that cheers, and one hero downs 30 pints in one night. In The Pearl-Sewn Shirt, a lovely young wife turns to a wine-guzzling old woman for companionship in her husband's absence. The old woman returns her friendship by getting her drunk and pushing her into adultery with a wealthy young merchant. This is one tale that readers of lending-library triangle stories will have no trouble appreciating. The enraged husband divorces...