Word: untidyness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late famed British novelist put his last hurrah for life in the mouth of a miracle-working faith healer whose untidy life suggests that the road to God need not be paved with good conventions.
A gathering of jewelers and curiosity seekers crowded into a San Francisco salesroom, relentlessly bid down a 105-piece collection of gems (estimated value: $250,000) to a paltry $50,000. Previous owner of the baubles: the late France., Heenan ("Peaches") Browning Willson, pudgy nymphet bride at 15 (in 1926...
Untidy Troops. Castro's unpaid volunteer troops form a disorganized, barebones partisan army. They wear blue jeans or khaki pants, Truman shirts or Eisenhower jackets. About 10% have modern weapons, Garands captured from the Cuban army. The rest carry .22-cal. target rifles, double-barreled shotguns, Belgian sporting rifles...
The troops, mostly hardy Sierra Maestra boys, are grouped in widely separated "columns" under captains. The men march in untidy ranks as much as 15 miles a day on the theory that standing still is perilous. There is no drill, no inspection, no radio communication, no headquarters. Four women march...
Ro (for Roland) Lancaster is an elderly, gangling man with a "raddled old face." Elsa is an untidy drifter of 28, thirty years his junior and fond of reminding him of it. Ro wants to while away the day talking about the years when he was a famous U.S. newspaperman...