Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...foist such a tale upon clamorous Americans requires some audacity. Yet the attempt is successful because it is never strained and because each of the three principals has carefully developed a character. The Church of England is doubtless happy to be exported in such a complimentary fashion. It probably recognizes that there are few Anglican preachers who can get church-bound schoolboys to listen as attentively as Robert Donat succeeds in doing. Apparently, even the bulbous Dean of Gilchester, symbolic of church authority, approves in some small measure of his "live life while you live it" philosophy...
...cameraman turned out to be Georges Chassagne, 34, a French resident of Algeria. And when Movietonews ordered him up to Paris to face a press conference, Chassagne convincingly denied the whole tale. He told how he had gone to the scene of violence at the invitation of French military authorities and accompanied by five other newsmen. "I not only never talked to the gendarme," he said, "but I am almost sure that he never realized I was filming the incident." France-Soir ran a dispatch from its Algerian correspondent backing up Chas-sagne's story, and a testimonial from...
...Dickens shows his psychiatric insight in many instances, but the story of Dr. Manette in A Tale of Two Cities is remarkable, says Dr. Brain, "for the accuracy of his account of a case of multiple personality and loss of memory . . . and because it includes an anticipation of psychotherapy." As a prisoner in the Bastille during the French Revolution, Dr. Manette had been a shoemaker. After release he lost his memory, but regained it when he came to London. He continued to have memory lapses periodically, leaving his practice with each lapse to return to shoemaking. Finally, a friend helped...
...with the Golden Arm. Nelson Algren's tale of a hot dealer who deals himself a cold card: heroin. A painful, powerful story of human bondage, in which Frank Sinatra is unforgettable (TIME...
...title tale, a lonely but bossy U.S. Government girl stationed in Paris sinks her fingernails into a handsome French boy, but only deep enough for him to run to the nearest French girl to dress his wounds. In A Dream of Love, a big bosomy tourist named Florence and a seedy expatriate named Tony sidle up to each other in a Paris café. Says Tony: "You are just like the woman I've always dreamed of. If you had lived in Venice five centuries ago, your thighs would be immortal." After one night with Tony, Florence wonders...