Word: taling
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human relations that usually lurk in literary backgrounds but rarely appear boldly as the central theme of a story. At times a bit maudlin, the English novelist has avoided stereotyped sentimentalities in "The Moon and Sixpence," and Warner's has followed faithfully with a moving cinema rendition of the tale of simmering desires and explosive emotional escapes...
...WOLF IN MAN'S CLOTHING - Mignon G. Eberhart-Random House ($2). Nurse Sarah Keate-Mrs. Eberhart's major contribution to mystery story personalities-returns, accompanied by a sister nurse with a past. An expertly wrought, well-characterized, highly emotional tale of "accidental" shooting, purposeful poisoning and deep dark villainy in a secluded Berkshire mansion...
Several weeks after Mr. Churchill had left the destroyer, it was torpedoed and sunk. One of the few articles rescued front the wreck was the ensign, which Seaman Robert Sickle, shipmate of the Prime Minister and source of the tale, carried in his jacket...
...eleven numbers of the Cydoner reflected the pent-up feelings of its sergeant editors.* Its masthead proclaimed that it had "no mission, no policy ... no tactical news of maneuvers and any news about anything else is guaranteed to be strictly unreliable." But the Cydoner chronicled the plaintive tale of Private Kountze, who stumbled on what he thought was a U.S.O. house. He wondered how the "senior hostess" had 15 flimsy-gowned daughters all approximately the same age. Not until the police raided did Private Kountze know...
...Somewhere I'll Find You" is the tale of war correspondent Johnny Davis, his kid brother, and their little blonde companion, also a newspaper worker, who takes turns in engaging herself with the Davis boys in all sort of friendly positions. The scene moves from New York to Hanoi with the greatest of ease, Gable busses Turner in every reel, the Filipinos and Yanks hold off Mr. Moto in an epic struggle, and everybody is happy...