Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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SOME OF THESE DAYS-Sophie Tucker-Doubleday, Doran ($2.50). Sophie's rise from burlesque "coon singing" to Ziegfeld stardom and Hollywood makes a rowdy and sentimental tale of yesterday's show business...
...been in this war a long time, seen action and must see much more I think your little fairy tale does the hope of mine and of all partisans of peace a grievous disservice. . . . The flower of world collaboration is a tender one indeed. And every hand in the world is not too many to nurture...
WINDS, BLOW GENTLY - Ronald Kirkbridge- Fell ($2.50). A family of Pennsylvania Quakers move to South Carolina, where Father Jordan's neighbors grin at his "book farming," scowl at the high wages he pays his Negroes. Gay, charming, occasionally sexy tale of farm life with social overtones...
...returned soldier in Baltimore told the tale...
Sizzling over a report submitted to him by a special investigator, New York's Mayor LaGuardia last week capped the sorry tale of the five Brooklyn College basketball players "expelled" for taking bribes to throw a game (TIME, Feb. 12) by revealing that one of them had never even been a member of the college. Discharged from the Army in December 1943, Larry Pearlstein simply borrowed two books from the Brooklyn College library, walked around the campus until his face became familiar, then went out for basketball and made the team. Barked the Mayor: "It indicates a ... negligence...