Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jarrell was known as "an industrious .and reputable reporter" when the New York Herald Tribune sent him to check a tip that a seaworthy saloon was operating off Long Island, outside the twelve-mile limit. Three days later, Jarrell filed a tale that sent thirsty New Yorkers, along with Treasury agents and every competitor in town, scrambling for small boats. Said an enticing, front-page headline on Aug. 16: WINE, WOMEN, JAZZ AND REVELRY TURN NIGHT TO DAY ON MYSTERY SHIP FLYING THE BRITISH FLAG...
...could not seem to settle down. He worked for a series of more than 30 papers until a heart condition forced him to become a freelancer. The day his death was announced, the New York Daily News ran one of his last short stories: Lovers' Quarrel, a fanciful tale of an estranged couple's reunion amid the ruins of the Aztec pyramids in Mexico...
Burning Village. It was ten days before a student who managed to escape reached Bukavu to tell his grisly tale. He could not be certain that the killing ended with the deaths of the 18 priests, for ten more missionaries and six nuns from other villages in the area were missing. In Leopoldville, United Nations Congo Boss Sture Linner conferred with Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula, but there was little immediate assistance he could provide; although there were more than 6,000 U.N. soldiers keeping the peace elsewhere in Katanga, they were hundreds of miles away from isolated Kongolo...
...expensive perfume on the stationery of the Ritz. But literary style can't be photographed, and in other respects the novel is sort of a mess. The plot is often gappy and sometimes sappy; the characters are superficially silly and fundamentally unreal. The intellectual apparatus of the tale-a compendium of cocktail party chatter about psychiatry-is almost pathetic. What's more, in the film the 18-to-29-year-old heroine is played by 42-year-old Jennifer Jones...
Bluestone, now on a Guggenheim Fellowship, wrote and directed the film, based on a tale by Herman Melville, at the University of Washington. Crews and actors, except for laboratory and sound technicians, were non-professional. Bluestone has also written Novels into Film (1957), a novel; The Private World of Cully Powers (1960), and several stories and reviews...