Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Marie ("The Body") McDonald, 38, sometime Hollywood actress, whose mysterious, never-solved "kidnaping" in 1957 raised eyebrows along with headlines when, after staying lost for 24 hours, she turned up wandering along a highway 150 miles from her home with a tale of being abducted, raped, and tossed into the California desert night; and Edward P. Callahan, 41, a Los Angeles lawyer and banker; she for the sixth time, he for the first; in Las Vegas...
Hemingway's Adventures of a Young Man. The young man is Hemingway, as he saw himself in the Nick Adams stories, which are here assembled in a charming, rambling, romantically melancholy tale of a boy attempting to get away from mother and become a man. Paul Newman, in a minor role, adds several impressive new wrinkles to Hollywood's standard portrait of a cauliflower...
...comes a respected German historian who says this tale of Luther's dramatic Thesenanschlag (thesis posting) is pure legend. Dr. Erwin Iserloh, Roman Catholic professor of church history at Trier, declares that Luther merely mailed off copies of his theses to two of his ecclesiastical superiors, the Bishop of Brandenburg and the Archbishop of Magdeburg and Mainz, and let it go at that. Iserloh points out that the writings of Luther himself never mentioned nailing the theses on a door; the first record of the story, in fact, was written after the heretic's death...
Innocent Grandeur. Last week's outdoor epic was Under the Vultures, an old May tale chosen for this year's Karl May Festival. In its ten years, the festival has drawn 800,000 visitors. The cowboy and Indian fans from all over Germany come for the festival, pitch tepees, fire blank pistols, call each other "Callamitty Jane" and, though few Germans can pronounce it, "Billy the Kid." And during the season, Bad Segeberg's best hotel offers "Dakota Weshungle mil Palushka Weshungle" (spiced buffalo meat with brown beans...
...novel about castaway children, is a parable of man's instinctive hostility to man whose growing popularity in undergraduate circles (TIME, June 22) now rivals that of Catcher in the Rye. Golding's new book is less savage, and it is no parable, but a subdued, haunting tale told for the satisfaction of telling. Its subject is the last days, millennia ago, of Europe's last band of Neanderthal...