Word: talese
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE, by Martha Gellhorn. The three stories are set in the weary world of Continental society, where people manipulate friends as well as cards to slake their boredom. In each story there is a loser, and in the collapse of his flimsy designs is the germ...
THE BOLD MEN (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Tales of specialists in courage, including Parachutist Rod Pack, who falls 10,600 ft. before a mid-air meeting with a fellow sky diver carrying an extra parachute.
PRETTY TALES FOR TIRED PEOPLE by Martha Gel/horn. 221 pages. Simon & Schuster. $4.50.
Wondrous Tales. So much for the Northeast Passage. In 1576, Captain Martin Frobisher set out to discover a Northwest Passage to Asia. His third voyage produced a remarkable description: "The storme still increased and the yce so invironed us, that we could see neither land nor sea, as farre as...
So much for the Northwest Passage. Southward the way was barred by Spain, but the greedy "marchant adventurers" heard wondrous travelers' tales. One story, no doubt brought back by an ancestor of Ian Fleming, gave it out that "certaine servants of the emperor having prepared gold into fine powder...