Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...FELL DOWN DEAD - Virginia Perdue - Crime Club ($2). The suspenseful tale of a young bride's discovery that her handsome and plausible husband - a California quack doctor - is a proper target for murder. Exciting, convincing and an excellent job of writing, in the same bracket with Francis Iles's Before the Fact...
Idea man for these changes is an ex-baboon hunter, Alexander James Lake, 50, the yard's cocky public-relations man. Al Lake's tale of his life smacks of Defoe. A Chicago missionary's son, he spent his boyhood in South Africa, was paid $1.25 bounty by the Transvaal government for each baboon tail he produced. He got a job as an electrical engineer for a Swedish company, later moved to the Mojave Desert, where he prospered writing pulp-magazine stories about the jungle. When war broke out, he got a job at Albina. He thought...
...years that Anglicans have worked in New Guinea, he says, they have changed many cannibals into peaceful natives who like to drive motorcars, tune in on radios. With their own hands New Guinea natives built a cathedral at Dogura. Wand consecrated it four years ago. He has many a tale to tell about the native loathing of the Japanese and how New Guineans have risked their skins to save Allied soldiers from the enemy. Wand claims that this loyalty is due to the missionaries' work. Since the Jap came, native respect for them has risen even more, because...
From Edmonton, capital of Canada's province of Alberta and gateway to the new 1,480-mile-long U.S.-constructed Alaska highway, a Canadian newsman sent a tall tale to the Philadelphia Inquirer: "The inspector general of the Canadian Army paid a visit to Edmonton, and, desiring to look over the American in stallations there, put in a telephone call to the U.S. Army headquarters. Plugging in . . . the telephone operator purred in the soft accent of an American telephone operator, 'United States Army of Occupation.' The Canadian inspector general . . . hit the ceiling. . . . The telephone girl was quietly...
...Honeymooning in Manhattan, San Francisco Sleuth Pat Abbott encounters an acquaintance of Paris expatriate days and is plunged into the torrid troubles of a quarrelsome clan, culminating in double murders. Abbott's frequent clashes with a babyfaced, steel-willed police lieutenant enliven a tightly plotted, brightly told tale, with an unexpected finish...