Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...believe that young Norwegian Nazi's "prizewinning dream" (TIME, March 6) demonstrates better than anything we can write or say the type of mentality which has been attracted to Quisling in Occupied Norway. . . . The rubbery highflying fantasy of the tale ... is reminiscent of another "classic" in the history of Norwegian letters. I refer to the "novel" that came from the pen of Charles Hoff, onetime world champion pole vaulter, shortly after he returned to Norway after his escapades in America. Hoff's story ended with an earthquake destroying Manhattan, and with the poor but honest hero marrying...
...fined for improper dealing in narcotics. They whispered that his rue Caumartin office was well-known among women of the Paris demimonde. In Paris Soir a Madame Parisinot told how she had recently called on Dr. Petiot for treatment of a swollen wrist. Like the Bluebeard of the fairy tale (see cut), the Bluebeard of the rue Le Sueur had a magnetic eye. But otherwise, with his lime-stained hands and rough work clothes, he looked like a bricklayer...
...tells how Grace wowed the opera public from San Francisco to Bucharest, how she romanced with Artist George Biddle, how Maurice Chevalier declared her his only love and Charles MacArthur locked her in a men's lavatory. Between its name studded lines is the real story: the tale of a shrewd, attractive, indomitably ambitious girl from Slabtown, Tenn., who set out to become a celebrity, played every card just right, and finally got there...
Bombing stories again became the main topic of conversation in pubs, clubs, offices, busses and homes, on the old basis of ril-listen-to-your-bomb-if-you'11-listen-to-mine. There was the new tale of a German airman who parachuted from his crippled bomber, then had to hike seven miles, trying at an inn and three villages before he could get someone to capture him. There was the heartbreaking story of the big London distillery that took a hit and the stock of gin that was lost...
...have to go East on business, but this has nothing to do with the theater," said the playwright, who during his seven year seclusion at "Tao House" (with his third wife, exactress Carlotta Monterey) has been struggling against a recurring ailment to complete his cycle of seven plays: A Tale of Possessors Self-Dispossessed. No comment by O'Neill was reported on the news that a child was expected in August by his 18-year-old daughter Oona, dark-eyed fourth wife of recently indicted Charles Chaplin (TIME...