Word: wayward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wobbly literary path for nearly a quarter of a century. Signposts along the way read: charming sentimentality (Tortilla Flat), left-wing melodrama (In Dubious Battle), maudlin blather (Of Mice and Men), tender innocence (The Red Pony), honest social indignation (Grapes of Wrath), meretricious sex (The Wayward Bus). His latest novel, East of Eden, comes under none of these labels, although it courts most of them for long stretches...
...until last week, when a grand jury handed up its presentment, did Manhattanites learn the why & wherefore of the wayward bus driver. Bragg had been driving buses for the same company for nine years when, in 1945, he was admitted to Rockland State Hospital suffering from paranoid schizophrenia (severe mental derangement, with delusions of persecution). By year's end he was on the job again: the hospital director declared Bragg "sufficiently recovered to operate a motor vehicle." He was confined for another attack...
...that Willie was writing to Schuster's family to express "his sincere regrets at this senseless, disgraceful murder." Willie has been offered $250,000 for his memoirs and will turn this money over, his lawyer said, to the "Willie Sutton Helping Hand Fund," to assist ex-convicts and wayward juveniles who want to go straight...
...real-life romance blossomed at the Metropolitan Opera. Baritone Robert Merrill, 33, recently reinstated after a wayward detour to Hollywood, and 21-year-old Soprano Roberta Peters, who made a dramatic debut in a last-minute substitution a year and a half ago as Zerlina in Don Giovanni, announced they would marry this summer. They met while singing Figaro and Rosina in The Barber of Seville, in which Figaro tries to persuade Rosina to marry the romantic tenor, Count Almaviva. Cracked Merrill: "This time the baritone got the girl...
...first of five chapters telling the sad story of pretty Peggy Ellsworth, 1947's "Miss Michigan," as told to Norma Lee Browning. Trib readers were accustomed to sad stories being told to Reporter Browning. As the Trib's star sob sister, she had masqueraded as a wayward girl, stranded in the city with no money (to measure the size of Chicago's heart), and submitted to phony medical treatment to expose quacks. In Cuba, she scored a beat by swiping the victim's diary in the Mee murder case (TIME, May 5, 1947). In Washington...