Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concentration of troops and planes in Norway, except for an unconfirmed rumor that Aberdeen had been cut flat by bombs. Last week's strange news that the Finns were permitting German troops passage to Norway did not ease nervousness about the North. London heard and believed a new tale of attempt at the Strait of Dover last week, which was said to have failed because the R. A. F. shot down 133 planes that day and bad weather made seaway grim for the barges...
Grover Jones was a round, ruddy, bespectacled little man with a rim of reddish hair around his shiny bald head. Pounding up & down a room, swinging a long cigar through the air, he could tell the tallest tale in Hollywood. Inside the brick wall circling his two-acre property he kept a pony, a goat, 14 English sheep dogs, ducks, geese, chickens, ravens, down-&-out friends and relations, his father, his mother, his wife Sue. His profession was screenwriting, for which he received as much as $3,500 a week, $40,000 a script. He reached Hollywood from West Terre...
...This tale is typical of the dozens told with gusto in Bellevue (Julian Messner; $2.50), published this week by Mrs. Lorraine Maynard, a pretty, risible free-lance writer. She wrote it in collaboration with Dr. Laurence Miscall, associate visiting surgeon at Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital, who is especially interested in chest surgery, diabetes, frostbite, gastrointestinal tumors, and human nature. Dr. Miscall once operated on Mrs. Maynard's husband. Thereafter she did volunteer work at Bellevue, got the idea for her book...
This week ten famed newscasters from the three major networks will foregather in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria to join in an aerial storytelling bee. Wired for sound by NBC, the tale-spinners' seminar will include such lights as Raymond Gram Swing, Elmer Davis, H. V. Kaltenborn, Walter Winchell. Purpose of the broad cast: to pay tribute to Lowell Thomas on his tenth anniversary in radio...
...recent fragile work to make of Rangers of Fortune the most thrilling and funny movie brawl of the current Western craze. Without losing a gasp of suspense, he has fashioned his free-lance rangers into characters of such ludicrous gallantry, bravado and rough-&-tumble efficiency as to make his tale a classic parody on every horse opera ever produced. But with the technique of a master storyteller he inserts enough sex, sentiment and sock to keep his yarn well outside the bounds of buffoonery...