Word: w
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This ain't my kind of place," growled Teamster Boss James Riddle Hoffa. His cold, hard eyes swept across the well-groomed grounds of the Greenbrier Hotel at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. He spat on the lawn. "We are paying the bill." he said, "but those intellectuals, those lawyers, picked out this place. This is their kind of place. They like to play golf and that stuff...
...Hotel Pierre, blandly told reporters he was only trying to beat the heat of Miami Beach, where he lives. He is also trying to beat what the U.S. State Department calls "very good" chances of deporting him-and he has talented help. His attorney is Miamian David W. Walters, who performed a similar service for Cuban ex-President Carlos Prio Socarrás. Grinned Walters last week: "Prio stayed seven years and went back to Cuba voluntarily before we had exhausted anywhere near all the possibilities...
...FRED W. MCDARRAH New York City...
Much of this discursive novel is evidently autobiographical. Examples: 1) Like his hero. Author Stuart left Ireland in 1940 and spent most of the war years as a lecturer in Berlin; 2) Stuart was once highly praised by W. B. Yeats, once married to the adopted daughter of Maude Gonne, the Egeria of Yeats's nationalist literary salon; his Cassidy has an Irish wife and admits once knowing Yeats "quite well." At one point in the story Cassidy finds a cache of Irish whisky; Author Stuart's style resembles it-warming in small doses only, smoky and unpredictable...