Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...love of life revealed to Carmela in these reveries make The Film of Memory a sensuous shelfmate to David Garnett's recently published Aspects of Love (TIME, Jan. 30). French Novelist Maurice Druon, a Prix Goncourt winner, applies Latin brio and an urbane Gallic prose style to his tale, and he can navigate the rapids of a zany stream of consciousness without drowning the reader...
...Tale with Tears. Mounting the podium with extreme solemnity, Khrushchev spoke for three hours with great care and feeling-and sometimes in tears. His first words were to praise Stalin: in the early days, said Khrushchev, Stalin was a devoted and truly great servant of the party, and in the decade after Lenin's death (1924) his leadership was indispensable. But in the last 19 years of his life Stalin had done enormous harm to the party, the Soviet Union and the Soviet people...
Studio One (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). Red Buttons in Jackie Gleason's The Tale of St. Emergency...
...took a long, slow swallow of the freshly refilled wine glass. His mood was not bitter; it was, in fact, quite friendly, as though he were telling his tale to a group of trusted friends. The camera had been put away, and everyone was thinking, not unsympathetically, that "here was a neat story for the folks back home...
Agreeing that Kefauver's recent gains in New Hampshire and Minnesota were serious setbacks for Stevenson, Holt B. Westerfield contended that the results were not decisive. "The tale will not be told until the convention itself," Westerfield said. "The odds are still considerably against Kefauver's getting the nomination. Stevenson is still out in front...