Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...obvious morals to be derived from this story. The first is that the Cambridge Police should recognize the friction between the uneducated but moral town and the educated gown by not employing non-official inhabitants of the town in the official chastisement of "gownies." The second truth which this tale teaches is that the Cambridge Police should place men who are accustomed to college frivolity on the Garden Street beat. Finally, students are warned that, if they must sport themselves in freakish attire, it would be well to carry along either a bursar's card, or money...
Seldom in the history of journalism has so much been written by so many who knew so little. For more than two years, the press of much of the English-speaking world has spun out the tale of British Princess Margaret's romance with R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend in cotton-candy clouds of circumstance, tidbit, speculation, opinion and surmise. Last week Margaret and Captain Townsend converged on London from opposite directions, and the tale spun dizzily on. To all intents and purposes, the climactic chapter of the world's most romantic cliff-hanger was about...
...Where's the Game? -still worth more than a white chip. Some of them, though, seem to begin after the deal has started and end before the reader gets his fifth card. Best of the lot, perhaps, is Somerset Maugham's Straight Flush, a poignant tale of a man burdened with failing eyesight, and not idiocy, who chose the one time in 64,973 chances to misread his hand and toss a small straight, all pink into the discard. The gentleman gave up his hobby of a lifetime and directed his future interests toward philanthropy...
...Hell and Back begins its tale in the rural slums of North Texas, where Audie and eight other children were raised, mostly by their mother; the father ran out on the family when Audie was twelve. The boy quit school and went to work on a farm, and at 17 he enlisted in the Army. The Marines and the Navy had turned down the skinny little geezer as unfit for combat, and when he got to North Africa the boys in his platoon shook their heads. "That's real fresh meat, huh? . . . It's going to take...
...film he hopes to make some day-a story about an M.C. of a This-Is-Your-Life-like TV program who decides to become a saint. That idea is a vulgarized Mailer version of a book called Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West-who also wrote a little satirical tale of Hollywood (The Day of the Locust), which in one page shows more style, wit and distinction than could be combed from all The Deer Park...