Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...become a Red Cross girl, and fallen in love with Brad while still the tacit fiancee of slim, tight-lipped John Wynter. What Brad and Val do to John and Jane and each other in this story of hand-holding across the seas in wartime makes for a slack tale slickly told...
Black into Gold. In the electrical equipment field, General Electric's earnings set a new peak for the second quarter, going from $45,827,000 last year to $51,323,000 this year. Sylvania told the same happy tale, with its $2,840,364 earnings setting an alltime second-quarter high for the company and more than doubling its earnings of $1,401,298 during the period last year. The high level of consumer income and spending showed up in food-company earnings. Pepsi-Cola hit the brightest spot: six-month net shot...
...TALE FOR MIDNIGHT (354 pp.)-Frederic Prokosch-Little, Brown...
Rotter's Rotter. The Cenci story has fascinated writers for more than three centuries. Plays, poems, novels and histories have dealt with its dark and bloody theme, and still, as in Frederic Prokosch's new novel, A Tale for Midnight, it has a surefire appeal that does not suffer from retelling. Author Prokosch has a hankering for the exotic and the violent (Night of the Poor, The Seven Who Fled). In the Cenci tale, he has contented himself with sticking pretty close to the facts. But he has given them a rich setting of sounds and smells...
Novelist Prokosch takes no sides, is almost astringent in telling the historic tale. His Beatrice is a cool customer, victimized by her father but with a calculating streak that makes her something less than lovable. Her affair with Olimpio is described not as a great love but as a product of tawdry circumstance that came in handy when she decided on murder. Most historical novelists would wallow in the Cenci story. Prokosch moves around it with the kind of detachment that makes it as believable as it is readable...