Word: vales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VALE OF LAUGHTER by Peter De Vries. 352 pages. Little, Brown...
...Sandwich, the hero of The Vale of Laughter, has his own way of saying it: "Well, a man's got to believe something, and I believe I'll have another drink." Joe is the sort who, for the sake of a gag and to be included in a rich uncle's will, names his son Hamilton. And to prove that the block is still for chipping, young Ham Sandwich at eight names a honky-tonk for the middle-aged "The Slipped Discotheque...
When Joe himself leaves his own vale of laughter, it is the result of an unintentional practical joke, played by a friend whose analysis of Joe's humor always kills the joke. What is true of Joe is also true of De Vries: his gags are the defenses of a very serious fellow who has found no better way to fend off the daily slings and arrows...
Last week it looked as though Damon's vale had held a double meaning: there was an unsolved matter of $ 1,000,000 and who it belonged to. Semenenko was out of touch on a yacht cruising the Mediterranean, but from Boston came word that he had agreed to turn over to the bank a $1,000,000 fee due him over a ten-year period for "special services" to Moviemaker Jack L. Warner. One such service: arranging the sale last year of Warner's stock in Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. to Seven Arts Productions Ltd., which Semenenko...
Died. Lester Weatherwax, 79, last survivor of the Weatherwax Brothers Quartet, a pre-World War I Chautau-qua-circuit singing group that so popularized the Little Brown Church in the Vale that the 102-year-old church, with a congregation of only 150, draws 125,000 tourists a year to Nashua, Iowa, has been the scene of 52,000 weddings; of a heart attack; in Wichita, Kans...