Word: tales
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bustle lay a set of attitudes which most historians are prone to ignore. In this volume, however, the influence of such forces as Herbert, Spencer's evolutionary liberalism and Frederick Taylor's "time-and-motion-studies" are more accurately weighed than ever before. "The Age of Enterprise" is a tale both of what men did and of how they thought...
...gets its performance under "Gone With the Wind" length, the German producers of "The Brothers Karamazov" are forced to omit huge chunks of plot. The entire tale of Aliosha, dreamy near-mystic and perhaps the hero of the novel, is scrapped to make way for the study of Dmitri Karamazov, his love Grushenka, and the intricacies of another brutal murder. The German production is good so far as it goes, but Dostoevsky fans will weep at the wholesale butchery of the novel. Anna Sten, as the seductive Grushenka, contributes a fine performance...
Five days before British troops arrived in Tananarive the children were freed. Last week their tale was told. Fifty of them between 15 and 17-ten were girls-had banded together under a 19-year-old leader to form their own unit of the Fighting French. They had certificates of membership and secret meeting places. Theirs were the slogans scrawled at night, the stenciled angel, the Cross outlined in green on Poincaré Square. Of them their leader said: "They're good comrades-no one has ever given away a fellow member...
...FOURTEENTH TRUMP-Judson P. Philips- Dodd. Mead ($2). The tough and tricky tale of a Manhattan hotel-room murder that puts a pretty girl in the shadow of the chair, leads Broadway Gambler Danny Coyle and his Harvard-graduate assistant through a dexterously crooked bridge club to a shoot-it-out finish. Credible tough-guy stuff, well packed with excitement...
Thrifty Freshmen should learn from this sad tale that the CRIMSON is not a luxury, but a necessity...