Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quite agree with your Essay on the need to complain more. My complaint is about your tale of the "bedbug letter." This one is at least as old as TIME. It used to involve a complaint about bedbugs in Pullman cars...
...story went, Wallace had unexpectedly moaned when a nurse stuck a hypodermic needle in his buttock. Excitedly she told doctors that the semiparalyzed patient had sensation below his waist. Doctors attached little significance to such reflex-like responses, and image-conscious Wallaceites chose to tell only the bowdlerized tale of a wiggling...
...fight it out, Macunaima employing tricks just as dirty as the villain's. He gets himself up as a lonely divorcee to visit Venceslau, but, taking off his disguise behind an inlaid ebony screen, foolishly hands over two tell-tale oranges along with the brassiere. Still, as the narrator observes, "Venceslau is broadminded," and tries to bed the naked Macunaima nevertheless. It is Macunaima, healthily hetero--is this the bounds of the Brazilian revolutionaries or the Brazilian censors?--whose prudery ends the escapade...
Died. Charles Tazewell, 72, Broadway stage actor and founder of the Brattleboro, Vt., Little Theater, who in three days in 1939 wrote The Littlest Angel, the children's Christmas tale that became an international classic; in Chesterfield...
...that he had been killed by his abductors. Conducting their own investigation, the Gambinos were also hot on Sentner's trail. After two men riding in a black Cadillac raked his home with shotgun blasts two weeks ago, the terrified Sentner went to the Government with a bizarre tale...