Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Antarctic summer. But there was at least a chance that they are heated from below. (The geyser region of Yellowstone is slightly heated in this way, and many parts of the world have warm springs which tend to keep lakes from freezing.) The romantics and the tale-spinners could take it from there...
Children of Vienna is a bitter little tale of conquered Europe's younger generation, its postwar jargon and cynicism and the still unconquered reasons...
...days of "Topper" are beginning to age just a bit. No longer is unchecked mirth provoked by the familiar business of having characters invisible to their fellows on the screen, yet conveniently apparent to the audience, walking through walls and evening thunderstorms. All this is involved in a trail tale about an old gentle man who dies and insists upon staying around a while longer to fix up some family affairs, with the help of a resurrected father. But it doesn't really amount to much...
...displayed by the young man's parents toward the well-digger and his daughter is changed, upon the receipt of a false report of his death, into friendship and love for the infant who is their only link with their departed son. There is a happy ending to the tale when the girl's lover returns safely to make an honest woman...
University of the Air (Fri. 11:30 p.m., NBC) begins a dramatization of Arnold Bennett's The Old Wives' Tale...