Word: tomes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a near-adequate book allowance from the Veterans Administration as backing, most undergraduates scrimp little to pay for their instructor's favorite tome. The problem today is to find the books authorized for purchase. Before the war, the faculty could do little to help students in the search for the printed word because the problem was basically financial. Now, however, the task is not to locate the money needed for book purchases, but to search out a store able to fill the demand for popular texts...
...Innocents* and the Latin American equivalent of April Fool's Day. At the San Tome camp of the Mene Grande Oil Co., the plane had just landed from Caracas. Its most important cargo: $287,000 in crisp bills to pay drillers and riggers. It brought also a surprise. When company paymasters opened the moneybag, they found only bricks and old newspapers. A Day of the Innocents' joke, was their first thought. But it was no joke; somewhere between Caracas and San Tome the payroll pouch had been stolen...
...known in many a day. In Barranquilla in neighboring Colombia, police began to watch one Julio Casa Rivas. Reason: he was buying flashy cars and diamonds, and otherwise tossing around Venezuelan bolivars. Rivas was arrested, told all: with a cashier accomplice he had switched moneybags just before the San Tome-bound plane took off from Caracus...
...straight actor. Here he gets his first good chance to display this talent, playing two deep-metropolitan types. One is Buzzy Bellew, hard-glazed headliner at the Pelican Club, half insane with self-appreciation; the other is Buzzy's super-identical twin brother Edwin, a meek, bleak, gentle tome-prowler who spends most of his time at the Public Library, and adequately maps out his sensual life When he tells a pretty librarian (Virginia Mayo): "I love the smell of leather bindings...
...there will remain such folk as Jack Cornwall, laugh man of his company, who with others believes that "things are tough and the world can always appreciate a laugh to its ultimate advantage." Naylor Cragin, however, reports that Jack has acquired another German tome and secretly sympathizes with his next term roommate...