Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time guidance of employer Miles Maleson, first loses a cinch divorce suit, then wins dismissal of a confidence man on a technicality, and finally returns as a substitute counsel to his own village in a slander trial. He wins, and from the public gallery his father leads the home-town parish in applause...
...Fair Lady, Kay spends her time touring theaters (she claims to have seen all on-and off-Broadway shows) or listening to American jazz (old Bessie Smith records) in their rented Manhasset, N.Y. home. "I've had too many years of rushing around from hotel to hotel and town to town and waking up alone in the morning." At 31, Kay Kendall says: "It's a joy for me to have a home, dogs and husband-not necessarily in that order...
After that, the book offers enough coats and hooks to fill a good-sized cloakroom. Meanwhile, the younger kids scrape and squabble, while the old folks lead lives of quiet exasperation: a mother dies:a father loses his job; a family moves to another town. No small-town girl herself, Author Winsor (who grew up in Berkeley, Calif.) has caught a few authentic echoes of small-town speech. She quotes Dostoevsky to the effect that "there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome" than "a memory of childhood." But then, Dostoevsky never knew Kathleen Winsor, who makes childhood seem...
Once there was a poor little rich man. His name was Armand de Montfort-Lamoury, and he was a duke. Armand had everything: a Paris town house and a Daimler town car, pressed duck at the Tour d'Argent and Bellinger '47 to wash it down. Still, he lacked The Perfect Love...
...some of his flunkies bait a tender trap. They transform one of his surplus châteaux into a luxury hotel, designate one room as the Chambre d'Amour, to be rented only to beautiful women under the pretext that the owner of the suite is out of town. Armand's role is to enter the Chambre d'Amour in the night, valise in hand, surprising the sleeping beauty and then gallantly offering to spend the night on the neighboring couch. This bedroom farce promptly nets Armand two discontented wives, whom he restores to their husbands...