Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...students at the University of the Philippines told their zoology professor, Tage U. H. Ellinger, a tall tale. Deep in the Zambales Mountains in Luzon, where they had hidden during the Japanese invasion, were a strange, small people who called themselves Abenlens. Unlike the Negritos of the region, the Pygmies were only 4½ feet tall and were light brown, almost "blond" in complexion...
...just the sort of tale to send Danish-born Dr. Ellinger hotfooting it to the hills. For years he has been spending all his spare time studying Philippine natives, trying to find "what's underneath when you take off Spanish and American varnish." The Abenlens sounded as unvarnished as any people in the Islands...
Died. Nila Mack, 62, for 23 years writer-producer-director of the Peabody Award-winning children's program Lets Pretend (CBS's oldest continuous dramatic show); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Blonde, childless Widow Mack's Saturday fairy-tale program espoused courtesy and kindness, has long been something of an anachronism on air waves full of G-men, spacemen and cowboy mayhem, yet continues to draw 500-odd letters a week...
Disney, playing the whimsical Barrie tale for out & out fun as well as freewheeling fantasy, has crammed it with pell-mell adventure and capering slapstick. By stressing caricature, the movie avoids much of the cute picture-postcard look that has oversweetened some of Disney's previous films. Ornamented with some bright and lilting tunes, it is a lively feature-length Technicolor excursion into a world that glows with an exhilarating charm and a gentle joyousness...
Essentially, it is a tale of two Dickenses that Biographer Johnson has to tell. One is a 19th-century success story, the other a saga of personal disenchantment. Success came to him with a smash at 24 with The Pickwick Papers. It swelled with each succeeding novel and never deserted him as he launched into weekly newspaper editing, amateur theatricals and public readings. In the end, he became a kind of king-of-the-hill of Victorian letters. At his death in 1870, he left ?93,000, in today's money something like a million dollars. But through...