Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grey, glib Manhattan lawyer named George Morton Levy, who runs Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway (harness horses). Witness Levy admitted unabashedly that he regularly played golf with Costello, Bookmaker Frank Erickson and an internal revenue agent named Schoenbaum, and under Halley's persistent prodding, told a tale of Costello, the Boss of Bookies. Levy testified that in 1946 the New York racing commissioner threatened to revoke the track's license if he did not get rid of the bookmakers who were operating there. Levy instantly thought of his golfing friend Costello, and hired him to keep gamblers...
Smith tells the tale of the late George Bernard Shaw visiting Reisner. For once Shaw's humor seemed to fall, "he seemed rather small himself when he tried to littling the pyramids...
Arthur Koestler has composed a morality play for our times. It is not a great drama, for no sense of tragedy can permeate the cardboard world of animated abstractions that the book contains. But as a moral tale for the despairing civilization of the West, it conveys well the plight of a people lost without faith...
...Charles S. Smith, 48, a Los Angeles realtor who told police a hair-raising tale of being kidnaped, robbed and doused with syrup and feathers (TIME, March 5), admitted that he had done it all himself to cover up a poker loss of $1,600 in real estate deposits...
...Traviata: "The tale of a cutie with a cough and no four-way pills...