Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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United Feature, however, denies the tale completely. It says it has full title to the copyright. It admits that Capp has much more control over his creature than most cartoonists, but claims that he did not get it until 1947-when he sued the syndicate for a ringing $14 million, and then, with calculated magnanimity, settled out of court...
...story Abbott had to tell was a tale of rapid expansion and booming prosperity. A few of the transformations...
...Rudi (Shining Trumpets) Blesh and Harriet Janis, it is "music of enduring worth, revolutionary in concept and development." In a rambling, diffuse, but "true story of an American music" published last week under the title They All Played Ragtime (Knopf; $4), Co-Authors Blesh and Janis lovingly tell the tale of "a song that came from the people and then got lost...
Pushkin's tale deals with a young Russian officer who is looking for the secret of success at cards. The time is the early 19th century, at the height of the great Russian faro craze. The officer, played by Anton Walbrook in this British adaptation, is a very intense young man who believes in "taking life by the throat" to get what he wants. In the process of taking life by the throat, the officer delves into black magic, frightens a mysterious old countess to death, and eventually goes...
...experiment, first in his own New York, and then again in Cambridge, where he was visiting on the occasion of a football weekend. He attracted considerably more attention in the Boston area, where newspaper readers, for instance, still seem to get a big kick out of a funny college tale. In New York, a prank must be of unusual brilliance to achieve recognition...