Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head of the theoretical physics department at the Harwell Atomic Energy Research Establishment, was rated as the No. 3 atomic scientist in Britain. Then in 1950 British intelligence belatedly closed in. After a brilliantly conducted interrogation that played on his intellectual vanity. Traitor Fuchs seemed relieved to tell...
...victory toasts of aquavit by the dawn's early light. For Johansson, the victory was especially sweet: it erased forever the disgrace he suffered at the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki when he was disqualified in the heavyweight finals for "not trying." More important, Johansson needed no manager to tell him the value of the world's richest boxing title-or how to exploit it. The son of a stonecutter, he was a gifted street brawler as a youth, got married at 17, fathered a son and daughter and was later divorced. But Johansson has long since settled down...
...East), the Atlantic Refining Co. has tried its share of stunts. But last week it took its weathermen on a junket to Florida, treated them to a lecture from weather bureau experts, gave them some charts and textbooks for homework, and ordered them, from now on, to tell their story straight...
Soon he begins to tell himself that he wants desperately to marry her. "I don't want to be a middle-aged man keeping a girl somewhere." But he is old enough to know it would never work out. And then again: "Is it fair to have children at my age?" What's more, he is aware that the girl really wants a father more than she wants a lover. Every counsel of experience and common sense requires that he let her go-so he asks her to marry him. And she accepts...
...like histrionic genius. But Biographer Crichton is content to quote Demara without comment. On the psychology of imposture: "Every time I take a new identity, some part of the real me dies." On the nature of his gifts: "I am a superior sort of liar. I don't tell any truth at all, so then my story has a unity of parts, a structural integrity. [It] sounds more like the truth than truth itself." On the leading passion of his life: "It's rascality! Pure rascality...