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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sighted rifle, sent into the hills to hunt down Castro for $100,000. Nye said that he accepted the assignment only as a means of joining Castro's rebel army. The verdict was guilty and the sentence death by firing squad, suspended on condition that Nye leave Cuba. Within hours he flew to New Orleans, where he commented that he had had about as much chance of getting a fair trial as "a snowball in the place made famous by Dante...
...Macy's, it announced that it had kept strictly within the $5,000 retail limit for furniture set by the U.S. Information Agency. It offered to let one of the awestruck Tassmen come in and buy the same thing for $5,000-after first comparing prices at Gimbels, of course...
...Brien (alias Myles na gCopaleen), and The Ginger Man (TIME, June 2), by J. P. Donleavy. Ireland's Ralph Cusack, an eccentric horticulturist and ex-painter, has written Cadenza as if to prove that O'Brien and Donleavy were squares and that James Joyce was well within his rights when he borrowed the English language and returned it in a condition unfit for use by the original owners. Cadenza is a maddeningly clever and occasionally poetic tale which concerns the identity -in a shifting foreground of misplaced time and mistimed space-of a wantonly Irish character called Desmond...
Dreamlike Vision. Desmond yammers and rants his life story from within a railway carriage that shuttles between Dundalk and Dublin. He is queer for trains, and, as the scenes seen from the windows unfold and blur into episodes from his raffish life, it is clear that he is queer about a lot of other things, too-notably small steamboats, chaffinches, a girl called Yvette, and an uncle with the improbable name of Melchizedek. Desmond begins his maniacally brilliant reveries after a gaseous bout at the dentist's, where he acquires new crockery, i.e., false teeth, and a desire...
...addition, Sullivan remarked that the two buildings offered by Cambridge--the Wellington and Kelley schools--are both within five minutes' walk from the nearest MTA station. Since most of the students at the junior college will come from "economically underprivileged groups," he explained, availability of public transportation will be an important factor in choosing a site...