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...later the rat-borne scourge devastated London, killing 70,000 -one-sixth of the population. Then it lay relatively dormant, taking a regular annual toll in parts of Asia where it was endemic. In 1896 it burst out of South China, through the port of Hong Kong. From there tramp steamers carried it around the world, causing at least 10 million deaths in a decade, 6,000,000 of them in India. Ever since, plague has simmered in a dozen infected areas, has caused several thousand deaths in most years. Last week the World Health Organization announced in Geneva that...
...half-hour dramas, ABC and Chesterfield have also guaranteed Frankie complete jurisdiction over his material. Frankie's material was narcotic. Using what the psychiatrists call "the melodic striptease," he peeled yards of satin from Bewitched, I Get a Kick Out of You and The Lady Is a Tramp−smearing nostalgia and responding to each lyric with subtle emotion. It was Frankie's guest crew (Kim Novak, Peggy Lee, Bob Hope) who somehow failed to return the charm and sincerity he oozed, though Hope was spasmodically funny: "The State Department is sending me to Asia to spread...
...second batch of stories which carry the baptism-by-life theme into young manhood are told by a nameless narrator who is serving as a seaman aboard tramp freighters. These show traces of the fogbound, soul-bedeviled yarns that Eugene O'Neill spun in his early one-acters. But what Iowa-born Author Kentfield brings to his best stories, beyond the knack for telling them well, is a front-porch vision of small-town life, talk, fears and dreams as authentic as the creak of the rocker that serves as the observation post...
...FRUIT TRAMP (247 pp.)-Vinnie Williams-Harper...
Raffish characters and an offbeat setting can sometimes save a novel. This is what happens in The Fruit Tramp, a warm-hearted little first book about itinerant fruit and vegetable pickers who traipse along with the harvests. The orphaned hero, Polk Watson, leaves a Georgia farm to hit the picker's trail with his Uncle Chunk, a shrewd, garrulous, gallused cracker who proves to the hilt Author Williams' observation that "no picking machine invented can cup and coax a tomato free like the human hand." Polk grows up in a seedy world of depressing boarding houses, trailer camps...