Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sweringens in 1921. Cleveland's only morning paper since 1917-the ill-fated Times (1922-27) scarcely counted-the Plain Dealer owns the evening News and Cleveland's only Sunday paper. Only the Scripps Press (p.m.) among all the erstwhile Plain Dealer competitors lived to tell the tale...
...Time to Come (by Howard Koch & John Huston; produced by Otto Preminger) leafs back to an instructive page of U.S. history. It tells the sorry tale of Woodrow Wilson's vision of a just peace and powerful League of Nations after World War I, of the conniving that crippled that vision at Versailles, and the opposition that destroyed it at home...
Like a fairy tale goes the story of Alsab, son of a onetime race horse named Good Goods and a $90 mare. As a yearling, he looked so worthless he was knocked down for only $700 at the Saratoga auction sales. Last week, in front of the insect-proof cage that surrounds Sab's stall at Hialeah Park, his owner, Lawyer Albert Sabath of Chicago, set up champagne for hundreds of two-legged guests, drank a toast to the colt that has already won $110,610 for him, the colt with whom he would not part for a quarter...
Ernie's life history would read like a fairy tale. When two years old, he lost both his father and mother, and, along with six brothers and sisters, was forced to seek shelter with foster parents. It is only recently that Ernie has succeeded in locating and renewing acquaintances with his scattered...
...their authors can understand and control. While their issues may seem trivial and dated, it is refreshing to find that ideas as well as "atmospheres" haunt the minds of the Mt. Auburn Street coterie. "Roll Your Own," Cecil Schneer's first contribution to the Advocate, is a somewhat overlong tale of a mortgage foreclosure, but it contains some unusually well conceived characters, ably portrayed by dialogue and incident. Harold Smith's "Boy Wanted" though the slightest of these stories in stature, succeeds the best. Here, for the first time, there is an integration of plot and mood, action and description...