Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write an end to the tale, a sort of Miami Beach Rififi, Florida Insurance Millionaire John D. MacArthur, 68, agreed to pay $25,000 as ransom for the $140,000 DeLong ruby, stolen last October in the great jewel robbery at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History. MacArthur packed the cash in a bundle of $100 and $50 bills for Freelance Writer Francis P. Antel to deliver to the usurers who had held the 100.32-carat ruby as collateral on a loan. He then drove out to a phone booth near Palm Beach and found the stone perched...
...tale may or may not be true. But most Haitians believe it. They believe almost anything about Duvalier. In his eight years of power, the onetime country-doctor-turned-dictator has alienated almost every friend and neighbor. The U.S. has all but suspended dollar aid, maintains only the most pro forma diplomatic relations. His own people regard him with horror. Yet through murder, terror and voodoo mysticism, Papa Doc has set himself up as "President for life" and wields unshakable control over his tiny country. Unlike the smoldering Dominican Republic, which occupies the other half of the island of Hispaniola...
Labor is in and the Angries are out. They still go on writing, but they don't have much to say. In this novel, Alan Sillitoe (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) retells the tired old tale of a working-class yob who decides to chuck it all and live a little. He says ta-ta to his spouse and house, toddles off with a well-educated wench, ends up in Algeria running guns to the rebels and imagining he is out of the ruck and into the luck. Sillitoe was always a careless writer, and now that...
Undaunted by the list of her great predecessors, Author Shelley Mydans, wife of Photographer Carl Mydans, again tells the story in this new book, subtitled "a novel of the life, passion and miracles of Becket." It is still a rousing tale, filled with pomp and circumstance, tumultuous with the hacking blades of knights in battle, and silken with conspiracies that range from London to Rome...
...carcass of a ewe. Only two years intervene, but in that limited lifetime she accomplishes almost everything the species was designed to do. In describing what she does, Author Murphy, a man who can think like a scientist and write like a bird, manages to produce both a fascinating tale and a veritable encyclopedia of the eagle...