Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crowell is the same publisher who brought out Cheaper by the Dozen (TIME,, June 13), another tale of life with father, which was a surprise bestseller last spring. With full publicity behind it, Riot could easily sell almost as well. Yet the book has little of Dozen's natural air of comedy in it; it relies on carefully measured doses of laughing gas, slightly under pressure...
After Basil Rathbone's neatly trimmed and waxed voice, Bing Crosby's narration of Washington Irving's Legend of Sleepy Hollow is a letdown. The suspicion that Bing isn't taking the tale seriously is disquieting. The doings of schoolmaster Ichabod Crane are tailored to fit Crosby rather than Irving; that is probably why much of the charm of the first episode is missing in this one. There is enough left over to make good entertainment, though...
Four undergraduates returned to Cambridge at 4 p.m. yesterday with a tale of failure. The quartet claimed to have reached Philadelphia on their way to Beverly Hills, California, in an effort to bring movie starlet Janet Leigh back to Cambridge for a football game...
...tale: "I built a little mud wall around the ledge to protect me from the wind. I read aloud page after page of [G. K.] Chesterton's The Thing, tearing out each page as I finished it and stuffed it inside my jacket to keep me warm . . . The third day, I spent solving mathematical problems in my head, then I saw the feet of a rescuer being lowered to me from above...
...hour long talk sponsored by the Student Council, the author of "300 Years of Harvard" wove these and other traditional anecdotes into an historical tale in which he divided the history of the University into four periods. The "Beer incident" (improper treatment of students) occurred during the early period. "President Dunster's period" included a fire that the University president fought while clad only in nightshirt...