Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus, with the poetic license of storytellers through the ages, TV Comedian Steve Allen updated the Grimm fairy tale in jazzdom's Down Beat magazine last spring. It was intended only as a private joke for bopsters, told in the latest Tin Pan Alley argot, where "cool" means good, "crazy" means wonderful and anything that is really tops is simply called "the most." But the tale quickly reached a larger public when Manhattan Disk Jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins read it over the air, then recorded it for Brunswick. The record has sold a reported 200,000 copies to become...
After all the unhappy stories of informers and "progressives" among American prisoners in Communist hands, the hardy and happy released prisoners who jumped out of the trucks at Inchon last week had a different tale to tell-candid, bitter, and heartening. They were inmates of tough Camp Three at Changsong on the Yalu. They were the anti-Communist "reactionaries" who resisted indoctrination...
Says Ebensten: "The tattooist is almost a fairy-tale figure, hovering in his gloomy, weirdly decorated and mysterious little shop like some grotesque but bewitching hermit ..." But since World War I, tattooing has steadily declined. It is too conservative, for one thing, holding to such dull, outmoded motifs as Mickey Mouse, foul anchors, and bathing belles of yesteryear. Ebensten laments: "No atom bomb explodes on any lusty chest...
...Williams was that rare creature, a historical novelist who cared about history. When he died last February at 63 he had written some 30 books (which sold 5,200,000 copies), many of them forming a kind of family album of the U.S. in wartime. Come Spring was a tale of Revolutionary days, Thread of Scarlet a close-up of the War of 1812, House Divided took in four sprawling years of Confederate history. The books were honest, uninspired, but engagingly readable-triumphs of plausibility and painstaking research...
...Master of Ballantrae. Errol Flynn as the "wicked, wicked lad" in a rousing movie version of Robert Louis Stevenson's tale of the Scottish wars (TIME...