Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lecturer Robert Chapman's Billy Budd keeps getting last minute extensions of its life at the Biltmore on 47th. Dennis King stars in the Herman Melville tale. Tennessee Williams is trying to maintain his lofty reputation with The Rose Tattoo at the Martin Beck on 45th; some like it very much, but all agree it is not his beat...
Most successful of the musicals right now is Guys and Dolis, the Damon Runyon tale starring Vivian Blaine and Sam Levene, at the 48th Street Theatre...
...gangsters' molls. She was soignee in a platinum mink stole and picture hat. She was also cursing the photographers. "Make them stop doing that; I'll throw something at them in a minute," she told Kefauver angrily. Then, while the Senators listened breathlessly, Virginia told her simple tale of how a 17-year-old waitress from Alabama met a friend of big-time bookies named Joe Epstein, and started along the road to fame and riches...
...Incredible Details. Ruth Greenglass' testimony fitted neatly into the damning story previously told by her husband, who had already pleaded guilty. Ex-Sergeant David Greenglass had begun his tale with a flabbergasting account of how the Russians, through him and other spies, gained detailed knowledge of the atomic bomb at least seven months before the first explosion at Alamogordo (see SCIENCE). He had concluded with further incredible details of the ring's efficiency and cloak & dagger methods...
Within five weeks of its publication last fall, Thor Heyerdahl's tale of rafting the Pacific, Kon-Tiki (TIME, Sept. 18), climbed to the top of the U.S. bestseller list and has stayed there ever since. Including a Book-of-the-Month Club distribution of 200,000, U.S. sales have topped...