Word: tatterdemalion
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Toward the end of a tatterdemalion 20th Century-Fox film called Harry Black and the Tiger (TIME, Oct. 13), now showing in all the nabes. Hero Stewart Granger beds down with the wife of a close friend, and it is with the greatest reluctance that she finally returns to her husband. Not so much as a snowflake of retribution drops on either of them; it was, the movie makes clear, a most enjoyable affair for both parties. Because Harry Black is just a potboiler, rather than an "art film," the liberties taken in the picture point up the fact long...
Nearly half of Naples came boiling into the streets one evening last week. Tatterdemalion crowds surged and shoved into the battlemented Castel Nuovo, where the kings of Anjou once ruled the kingdom of the Two Sicilies. A huge sign went with them: "For the love of your Naples, do not resign! The ship is in peril, you must stay at the helm!" The mob was out in defense of Naples' Mayor Achille Lauro, the flamboyant millionaire shipowner and Monarchist whose freewheeling administration has won him the title of Il Re del Mezzogiorno ("The King of the South...
...walled rebel forts, and the flight into the mountains of the rebel Imam of Oman himself, his rascally brother Talib and their only remaining ally of any note, one Sheikh Suleiman bin Himyar, who styles himself "Lord of the Green Mountains." The rest of the Imam's tatterdemalion forces fled off to fend for themselves. Total casualties among the forces of the British and the Sultan of Muscat and Oman since the counteroffensive began: one dead, three wounded, seven cases of heat prostration. Rebel casualties were unknown, but probably amounted to not more than 40 or 50 killed...
Philadelphia's tabloid Daily News, once a shiftless tatterdemalion, has been gunning hard for circulation since Democratic Backer Matthew H. McCloskey Jr. took it over two years ago, infused it with money and ambition. Its chief rival: Publisher Walter Annenberg's Inquirer. Last week, in the climax of a month-long barrage, the News's guns pounded not only at the Inquirer's circulation, but at alleged payroll padding and loan-shark operations within the paper itself...
Iraq's young new army, trained by the British, has between 40,000 and 50.000 men organized into two divisions, with a third in the process of formation. Iran's 150,000-man army, for years a tatterdemalion outfit rotted by Communist infiltration and paralyzed by low morale, has been spruced up under the guidance of a U.S. military assistance group headed by Major General Robert McClure. currently consists of twelve passable divisions, three of them armored...