Word: somerset
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsstands, surveyed a collection of busty, flamboyant dames on the book jackets, and accused a distributor of peddling obscene literature. Then County Attorney John Duffy, a Notre Dame graduate who takes his knowledge of literature seriously looked over the evidence. The obscene books turned out to include bestsellers by Somerset Maugham, MacKinlay Kantor and John Steinbeck, and a collection of art masterpieces which had in it nudes by Velasquez and Titian. He dismissed the charge and for doing so forthwith got the clubwomen on his neck. They thought that such books should be barred from the newsstands...
...Somerset Maugham's Trio closes up shop Monday at the Sutton, 57th and Second, after a long, profitable run. Odette, a new British adventure story at the lush Park' Avenue Theatre at 59th Street, concerns itself with the true-to-life spy work of a female relative of Winston Churchill. Anna Neagle and Trevor Howard head the cast. The Golden Salamander is at the Little Carnegie, next to the big on West 57th, with Anouk as an extra feature. Believe it or not, Red Shoes is still playing, now wedded to intermezzo with Leslie Howard and Ingrid Bergman...
...thousand miles of open sea is a long way to go in a 49-foot boat, but P. Geoffrey DeSa 2B plans to sail that far in the course of a 15-month land and sea trip from Cambridge to his home in Somerset, England...
Along the way he will cruise the Caribbean and stop at the Bahamas and Palm Beach, Florida, before sailing for Bermuda. After leaving the Azores, he plans to coast up the shores of Spain and France on his way to Somerset...
Trio. Another trim package of Somerset Maugham short stories, fragile but handled with care by the British producers of Quartet (TIME...