Word: trickyness
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DEATH AND TAXES - David Dodge -Macmillan ($2). A huge tax refund on a dead beer-baron's estate motivates the murder of an income-tax expert. The expert's pardner, who likes liquor, ladies and a good scrap, helps California police clean up a tricky case. Hard-hitting...
Many an old airman used to shudder at the thought of 225-hour pilots stepping into souped-up pursuits. Now the youngsters and their instructors know more about the ships, which have also been improved. If anything, the young tyros from Kelly do better on the tricky landings than do...
A solar-energy heater patented last week by Dr. Charles G. Abbot, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution and a tire less inventor of solar-energy machines. His newest eliminates many of the circulation pipes which made older models clumsy, costly, tricky. A concave cylindrical mirror, clockworked to follow the sun...
Bartók: Mikrokosmos, Volume I (Béla Bartók, pianist; Columbia; 6 sides; $3.50). Hungarian Modernist Bartók neatly pecks out some of the 153 pungent, tricky-rhythmed pieces from his Mikrokosmos (little world), which he composed for piano students-much as Gertrude Stein might write...
Hollywood puts out a type of comedy that lies somewhere in between the Marx Brothers' slapstick and the more subtle personality humor of the late Will Rogers or the present Bob Benchley. This in-between brand depends mostly on a tricky plot and rapid dialogue, and has lately been dished...