Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...university dons have started life with so many handicaps or so much courage. In some versions of his life, G.B.S. seems so cold and distant that friends appear merely as puppets. Not so in this book-as is evident from Biographer Ervine's memorable description of Mrs. Sidney Webb and her husband, both Shaw's fellow Fabians: "Her embraces sometimes seemed more like assaults than endearments. [Sidney] would sit in his chair, with a statistical abstract in one hand and a White Paper in the other, while she balanced on his lap like an entranced houri...
...BLONDE, by Jack Webb* (245 pp.; Rlnehart; $2.75), is a neatly plotted, fast-moving yarn featuring those two old friends and collaborators in crimebusting, Sergeant Sammy Golden and Father Joseph Shanley. The Jewish cop and the Roman Catholic priest are not only believable characters; they emerge as intelligent, genuinely good men who, therefore, understand the nature of wrongdoing. When these two set out to nail a crook, the standard good-v.-evil struggle takes on depth and excitement. There is probably a valuable lesson here for writers of the unrelieved tough-guy school, in which the hero's morals...
...Jack (Dragnet) Webb...
...second round of the men's singles P. Cox defeated L. Youman, 6-1, 6-1; S. Frieder defeated J. Baldwin, 0-6, 9-7, 6-0; E. Sehehi defeated E. Hale, 10-8, 6-4; E. Helfeld defeated R. Webb, 6-2, 6-2; D. Shapere defeated P. Tanphiphat, 6-0, 6-0; R. Holroyd defeated B. Bress, 6-0, 6-0; K. Smith defeated T. Atkinson, 6-8, 6-4, 6-3; R. Balkin and J. Pleasant forfeited...
...following drew byes; S. Frieder, Esaac Senehi, R. Webb, E. Helfeld, P. Cox, D. Shapero, T. Tanphiphat, K. Smith, T. Atkinson, R. Balkin, J. Pleasants, D. Terris, T. Tully, H. McLean, W. Cox, L. Pazilack, D. Keesing, and R. Israel...