Word: side
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...McCoy's adroit use of symbolism, the uncanny fluency and nearness of his dialogue, and the influence (for good or bad) of Henry Miller upon his writing. I predict that TIME will shortly be forced to eat the cynicism and satire that was so flippantly fired from the side of its mouth...
...mystery is not an exceptionally clever or even plausible one, but it is presented in such a turbulent way, with those French (or better 'adult') touches, that the interest never lags. The story is set in that other side of show-business that Betty Grable never sees. A music-hall singer named Jenny Lamour and her piano-playing husband are plugging along in vaudeville when Jenny gets an offer for a contract from a big movie producer who happens also to be an aged, lecherous, hunchback. At a secret rendevous, he makes a pass at Jenny and she breaks...
Together they launched a monthly paper, the Catholic Worker, and opened a "House of Hospitality" in Manhattan's tough and dirty lower East Side, where anyone that came could be fed, clothed and sheltered as long as there was anything to share. Money would somehow be provided, they felt. When the first issue of the Worker came off the press, the editors had 92? amongst them...
...moods of San Francisco at dawn and dusk. Over at the rival Hearst Call-Bulletin, the column seemed to stir memories. Leafing through files, the Hearstlings found an April 23 piece by A.P. Columnist Hal Boyle-on the moods of Manhattan at dawn and dusk. They reprinted the columns side by side, under the heading HO HUM. Sample quotes...
Cocky little Bobby Riggs used to be the pet villain of tennis fans, but this time he had the gallery-what there was of it-almost on his side. And he had never yet lost a match in Madison Square Garden. He began the tour there five months ago (when 15,114 braved "the big snow" to watch him beat Big Jake Kramer). But last week the score in matches was a lopsided 59 to 19 against...