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The novel's guinea pig hero is Richard Terrell, a peacetime chemical engineer and wartime captain in the British army. An Afrika Korps stick grenade sends him into amnesia for ten days and lands him at Duncanford, "the best-run nuthouse in England." There Dick runs the gantlet of...
The most venerable cliché in U.S. humor is the mother-in-law joke. December Bride (Mon. 9:30 p.m., CBS), which translates the joke and variations to television, has astounded the industry by elbowing its way into the top ten. Nielsen and Trendex place Bride No. 5; ARB has...
Bendix's Lumicon is a sophisticated television apparatus. It has a camera tube that views a scene, such as a dimly lighted room, and translates it into a stream of electronic signals. Then a picture tube (with 1,029 "lines" of light instead of the usual 525) turns the...
Despite rumors that Perón last March married one Isabel del Solar Guillen, 19, (in a civil ceremony in the city he renamed for Eva Perón), Nelly stayed his favorite right up to last week. Aboard the gunboat, he penciled a fatuous billetdoux: "My dear baby girl...
There is, as Rubin says, some indication that Wolfe in the late thirties was no longer tortured by the questions he strove--sometimes magnificently, sometimes wildly--to answer in his first four novels. Rubin contends that in the ten chapters of the unfinished The Hills Beyond, Wolfe ascends from the...