Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characteristic of Satchel Paige, hero and narrator of this tale, that he does not remember when or where the episode took place. He is hazy about his age, his won-lost record, and the number of no-hitters he has pitched. Last week, when the Cleveland Indians signed him up, Paige became the first Negro pitcher in the American League...
...since Brideshead, was in the eager hands of U.S. readers, most of whom did not know whether to gasp, hoot or holler at the uncomfortable feeling that they had been smudged with soot from a crematory. The title was Waugh's creamy trade name for a corpse. A tale of love and suicide among the morticians of a cemetery that physically resembles Hollywood's fabulous Forest Lawn (TIME, Aug. 24, 1942), The Loved One was either Novelist Waugh's most funereal horse laugh or a retch of glacial rage at two of America's most cherished...
Somewhat against its better judgment, Chapman & Hall, the London publishing house of which Evelyn's father was head, had brought out his first slim, satiric novel, Decline and Fall. It was a lighthearted little tale of moral turpitude about a young Oxonian named Paul Pennyfeather, who became a teacher without qualifications in one of fiction's most fascinating schools for backward children. He was on the point of marrying Mrs. Beste-Chetwynde, the mother of one of his pupils, when he was thrown into jail. It had come to the notice of the vigilant police that Mrs. Beste...
...fishermen of Provincetown, Mass, agreed last week that 17-year-old Frank Cabral Jr. would be a famous man until he died. The boy and his father headed seaward at 5 one morning in a 30-ft. powerboat with two dories in tow. They came back with a breathless tale...
...prime wine. Only Jean Cassou gives an impression of both vitality and veracity. His macabre story is an up-to-date version of Romeo & Juliet, in which Juliet ("a nice, retiring person . . . the sort who hates being conspicuous") is put to shame by the amorous frenzy of Romeo. This tale teems with the wit for which France was once famed, and brings a genuine touch of comic relief to a world of despair...