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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco airport, the crowd waiting to greet General Mark Clark on his return from the Far East caught sight first of Mrs. Clark, who flashed a wide-open look of joy when she spied her daughter, Mrs. Gordon Costing. After welcoming ceremonies and a four-mile parade, the Clarks went on to New Orleans, where the general served as best man at the wedding of their only son, Major William Clark, 28, a thrice-wounded Korean veteran, and 25-year-old Fashion Model Audrey Loflin...
...trial progressed, open warfare between the factions was averted only by the judge's threat to clear the court-nobody could bear the thought of being shut out. But when the verdict came, nobody could say who was the victor. The offending statue was ordered put out of sight, and Silvio got a six-month suspended jail sentence. But Carmine was distressed nonetheless. "The constituted order confirms it," he moaned. "I do have that toad's face...
...fish that swirl among moving fronds like bright dancers in an oriental court. And there is the fish that walks, the fish that is nothing but a mouth, and the fish that shills for a poisonous anemone, luring other fish to their destruction; not to .forget the oddly compelling sight of a giant mother turtle, still, strong and impenetrable, laying her hundreds of grey little eggs in the warm sand by night...
When they met, secretly, it was love at first sight for Penelope and Philip. But what about father's consent? Penelope advised Philip to dress up as a curate. He did, and looked the part to perfection. What's more, he completely won over the crusty parent by quoting yards of Ecclesiastes...
...novel is: How are you going to keep them down on the sound stage after they've read Ernest Hemingway? Ever since he thrilled to The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber, the famous Hollywood director, John Wilson, had been burning in his soul to look down the sight of a .475 into the little blue-black eyes of a charging elephant...