Word: tales
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Barges by Night. Childers' book is full of suspense, as well as love and art and old-fashioned patriotism. From the tale's opening in Edwardian London to the young adventurers' discovery of a Teutonic scheme for dragging troops in barges to England by night, Riddle's scenes carry remarkable conviction. One reason is Childers' extraordinary affection for his main characters, both the worldly Carruthers and Davies, whom Carruthers has always patronized but comes to admire. There is, of course, a damsel in distress - Clara, whose Englishness in the midst of Germans gives away...
...Running). Here he is working for the first time with Daughter Liza, a stops-out entertainer, and such gifted, welcome actors as Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer. The material, adapted from a novel by Maurice Druon called Film of Memory, would seem suited to all: a sentimental, gilded fairy tale about a poor Italian provincial (Liza) who comes to Rome to work in a hotel. She buddies up with a batty, once regal contessa (Bergman), who urges her always to "be yourself-the world worships an original." The girl follows this advice and becomes a first-magnitude movie star...
...students who recognized this bizarre figure as "Brother Blue" immediately demanded a story. Brother Blue began his version of "Little Blue Riding Hood," and had not finished relating the tale when the bus approached the Radcliffe gate. Students on the bus complained, and the driver resolved the problem by taking the bus around the Quad twice. After warning the students to respect their parents, Blue danced off the bus, accompanied by enthusiastic applause...
...second game, the Reds' relentless ability to pressure mistakes told the tale. In the bottom of the ninth, the game was tied 3-3 when Griffey streaked toward first on a slow grounder. The hurried Yankee shortstop threw wide and Griffey cruised into second. From there he scored on Tony Perez's single. Perez has driven in at least 90 runs in each of the past ten seasons, yet he is the perennial subject of trade talk. This year Dan Driessen, 25, who was the Reds' designated hitter in the Series, is believed ready to replace...
Until a recent publicity junket, the closest these New Yorkers ever got to Georgia was a tale-spinning, small-time '40s music man. "Dr. Buzzard, who managed our bands in high school, got us off on Savannah with devilishly decadent stories about his own band days in the South," explains Stony. But Savannah's newly won popularity, bringing with it TV guest appearances and a national tour the first of the year, may even get them to Hollywood. Right now Savannah is hunting for backers so that they can finish a film they have already started. According...