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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VALE OF LAUGHTER by Peter De Vries. 352 pages. Little, Brown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Slipped Discoth | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Slipped Discoth | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Slipped Discoth | 11/24/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banking: The $1,000,000 Misunderstanding | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Nov. 11, 1966 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

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