Word: wife
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Athletic Director Bingham cant't afford to wait too wait too long. Spring practice generally starts around March 15 and applicants for the job know it. They have been cramming the H.A.A. mail bag. The place de resistance was a sincerely-penned communique from the wife of a mid-western high school coach. She was convinced her man was the logical choice to lead Harvard out of the football wilderness. "This is between you and I, Mr. Bingham," she said in her letter, "as my husband yet knows nothing about my writing...
...still wasn't satisfied, he gave up. Then the studio went to work on the problem. How about The Unguarded Heart? Huxley winced. How about Art of Murder? Huxley shuddered. Or Black Velvet? Huxley beat his temples. Well, then: Vengeance? Or Woman of Vengeance? Huxley's wife tried to calm him down. All right, A Woman's Vengeance...
...that isn't wrong with a number of major novels-except the way a good deal of it is told, oversimplified and trimmed with parsley. Sabre's enemies and their motives are too wicked, fancy, and convenient to the plot design to remain quite believable. The obstructive wife and husband are more conveniently unlovable than an honest imitation of life would allow, and they are so tidily removed from the path of true love that the whole business seems as manipulated as a shell game. Because all the bad people are so extraordinarily nasty, the good people look...
...author's simplicity, the reader gradually becomes aware of his extraordinary energy and coolness. But the book is not only an adventure story but a family history, told by a devout and loving father. Remy flouted the Gestapo for over a year and a half with a wife and four children on his hands. And he learned his job as he went along...
...blind, Renault let it be known that despite the defeat of France he felt that business was business and planned to make a movie about Columbus. It was a member of the German Embassy staff who helpfully smuggled a letter for him into occupied France, asking his wife to bring the children and join him in Spain...