Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ughh!" The violins swelled and the choral voices droned: "He started the first gossip column in town; Don Ameche invented the telephone for Walter so he could send out the news; he reported the way Jolson made people laugh and cry; and he helped J. Edgar Hoover with the FBI." From ringside, Rival Columnist Leonard Lyons whispered hoarsely: "And on the seventh day, he rested...
...time Bill was 13, he was playing shortstop on pickup teams with the town's adults. He turned down college basketball scholarships to sign with the Pirates in the summer of 1954, played with a couple of farm clubs. By 1956 he was called up to the Pirates...
...name. Editorial researchers scrambled, learned that Poet Jiménez was known from Aragon to Argentina as a kind of melancholy, Andalusian A. A. Milne, particularly for Platero y Yo,* a collection of prose vignettes spoken by the poet to his burro about life and death in a Spanish town (TIME, Aug. 19, 1957). At the outbreak of civil war, Jiménez and his Vassar-educated wife (translator of Indian Poet Rabindranath Tagore) left Spain, lived thereafter in the U.S., Cuba and Puerto Rico, where she died three days after he won the Nobel prize, plunging him into...
...Cronin (308 pp.; Little, Brown: $4), finds Novelist Cronin (The Citadel, The Keys of the Kingdom) crusading again and moralizing again, but the muscles of his indignation have sagged. His wide-open target is the English "popular" press, which runs to sex, sadism and trivia. Small-town Newspaper Publisher Henry Page seems hardly the man to lift his lance off the ground, much less to slay the dragon. He has been twice mayor of Hedleston, and is the great-great-grandson of the founder of the respectable Northern Light. Unfortunately, he is the kind of noble but dull character...
...home ground where his mother and his girl still live, where his father, killed by partisans, is buried. Kolodzi knows the war is finished, that the smart thing to do is to desert, get his mother and girl to safety before the Russians drive into his home town. But Kolodzi is also a first-rate soldier with a feeling of loyalty to his fellows. When he hears the opening roar of the massive Russian artillery barrage, he leaves the arms of his fiancée to return to a hopeless mission against the partisans...