Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Beggars is a tale of two racketeers. Back in Prohibition days Frankie Madison (Paul Kelly) had taken the rap and gone up the river for 14 years. His partner (Luther Adler) has grown rich and respectable, with the help of Frankie's dough, operating a swank supper club. Frankie, getting out of stir, thinks the partnership still exists. When he sniffs the truth, he thinks it is still 1930-that the tough guy who took the rap is more than a match for the smoothie who took his dough. But the tough guy hasn't a chance...
Last week E. P. Button & Co., Inc. hoped that it had the answer. Last year it received a manuscript from tall, red-blonde, good-looking Nancy Bruff, 29, wife of Manhattan investment broker Edwin Thurston Clarke. Titled The Manatee, it was a tale of the life and loves of a whaler. Immediately Button's sensed another Forever Amber...
...since 1942, and reconversion from war production is costing $75 million for machinery and plants. Unless U.A.W.'s wage increase is passed on to the public, Keller predicted that Chrysler, too, would soon go broke. General Motors' white-thatched C. E. Wilson had the same tale...
Girl No. 217 (Artkino's tale of slave labor in Germany; TIME, Sept...
Unlucky Millions. Few happy endings have come out of the mass migrations of at least nine million Germans from East Prussia, Danzig, Silesia, Pomerania and the Sudetenland. It is a tale of horror, old men starving on the roads, young girls raped in boxcars, children who will never find their parents or remember anything of childhood except cold and hunger and the fear of more cold and hunger...