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...tough, uncompromising novel about a very young man who learns the value of self-respect by daring to meet the crises caused by an air raid during World War II. Author Moore (The Luck of Ginger Coffey) casts a cold eye on society but warms it with Irish wit...
...capital. Mme, Chiang Kaishek, wife of the Generalissimo, continued the "unofficial" visit she began last month, charming her hosts at a luncheon with 60 Senators and at a dinner given by Dean Rusk-and all the while discussing the danger of admitting Red China to the United Nations. Her wit and ebullience only served to increase the mystery of another, more retiring Nationalist Chinese visitor-one whom she knows well: Defense Minister Chiang Chingkuo, the Generalissimo's son by his first marriage and his political heir apparent...
Also possessed of that swing is Trials of O'Brien, starring Peter Falk as a Manhattan criminal lawyer. A comedy successor to The Defenders, it is suffused with a breath of fresh (for TV) wit and literacy, and Falk steeps the role in a New York City boy's moxie and malarky. After winning a case, he shrugs: "You can't lose them all." Not in court anyway, though Falk blows enough on the ponies and at craps to stay hopelessly in arrears on his rent and alimony payments. All of which should make him an empathic...
...says Author Troebst, in the event of catastrophe, nothing is so important for survival as native wit and will. He recalls the case of Ralph Flores and Helen Klaben, who ingeniously contrived to survive for 50 days without food in freezing winter weather after their plane crashed in Canada. Even more ingenious were Viryl and Laura Scott, who in 1959 set off with their six children on an excursion into the Grand Canyon, foolishly turned off the main road onto a little-used sidetrack. There the car broke down. They were 50 miles from the nearest town, and the temperature...
...Published locally in 1943 and now nationally for the first time, A Stove-Up Cowboy's Story comes jackknifing off the page with all the red-eyed energy of the life it describes. Jim McCauley wrote as he talked, and he talked Texas with a wild and wheezy wit that makes these pages twang as they turn, and sounds like Will Rogers when he still smelled of horse. His story is oral literature at its best. Holler Calf Rope. "It was natural for me to be mean," McCauley confesses contentedly, and at 14 he was much too mean...