Word: tellers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bought as a disguise, he tramped into the tiny Northwestern State Bank twice to case it, nervously returned a third time with the shotgun. He ordered Assistant Cashier Paul Ormbreck to stuff money into a paper sack, dashed out with $1,158, after trussing up Ormbreck and a teller with sash cord and gagging them with dirty rags. Richter returned to the farm, paid up $400 worth of bills, tucked away the remaining loot between the walls of a grain bin. Two days later he went to a neighbor's farm to help shear sheep, returned to find police...
Squalls in the Pacific, however, are minor arguments against H-bomb tests to the continuing storms of scientific controversy. As early as 1947, Edward Teller, principle architect of the H-bomb, declared that "The effects of an atomic war fought with greatly perfected weapons. . . .will endanger the survival of man." Last summer two groups of Nobel Prize-winning scientists condemned continued H-bomb tests; the one headed by Albert Einstein and Bertrand Russell noted the dangers of radioactive dust clouds and "slow torture of disease and disintegration" in future generations...
...seems to suit the author and the protagonist, which the stream of consciousness soliloquy at the beginning certainly does not. If Davidson can find a tale which talks through its own logic instead of requiring attempts to explain outside the narrative, he may well become a really successful story-teller. At present, however, his story compels you to read until, arriving at the end, you find that there is nothing there but supper...
Laughed Off. In New York, police looked for the man who, wearing a huge false nose and oversized glasses, stepped up to Chase Manhattan Bank Teller William Blaha, handed him a note that read, "This is a stickup. Hand over $10,000," fled after Blaha burst out laughing and asked, "Are you kidding...
This success as a story-teller is, however, only one aspect of the author's technical skill. By presenting the saga in the form of a fairy tale, the author has freed himself to present his own view of the world, untrammeled by popular prejudice and preconception. To create a hero or to pit man against fate in the world of familiar experience is next to impossible, for the modern reader has long taken for granted the scientific proposition that man makes his own history, no matter how far from his hopes it may appear...