Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What gives this highly unremarkable tale its remarkable lift is no less its fidelity to life than its sense of fun. Though its comic edge is keen, Sally's and Bill's unconventional housekeeping is rich in bedspread and double-boiler touches that evoke delighted recognitions. And though lightly handled, Sally and Bill are pretty convincing people. Much of the comedy comes out of the piquant conflict of their own temperaments-out of Sally's young need to be dramatic and Bill's grown-up insistence on being downright. Their easy, sprightly, sometimes funny talk stays...
...Timers continued to grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed...
Eberhart-Random House ($2). A series of murders near a Florida Army camp spells trouble for pretty, young Vicky Steane. But an Army-officer detective puts a stop to the frame-up of Miss Steane, and brings an intricately plotted and turbulent tale to a clinch conclusion that will satisfy readers who like their romance and mystery adroitly mixed...
...Zurich newspaper Die Tat (variously translatable as "The Act" or "The Fact") printed the fanciest tale of many a long week. Its gist: Adolf Hitler, looking down the pistol barrel of defeat, would neither surrender, die in battle, nor kill himself. Instead, he would gather a picked staff of Nazi Party chieftains. Wehrmacht generals and technical geniuses, then lead them in a giant submarine flotilla to Japan. There he would establish his German Government in Exile, boost Nipponese production to undreamed-of levels, and string out the war a few more years.* In due time, if all went well...
Quentin Reynolds, the spaghetti-eating correspondent, who is also from Brooklyn, told this colorful tale last week on his radio program, Salute to Youth (NBC, Tues., 7:30 p.m., E.W T.). He recently replaced the show's William L. (They Were Expendable) White as Goodyear's $1,500-a-week coast-to-coast war-story teller...