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...three years Dimitrios went on regularly turning in men whom he called Communists; their womenfolk usually became his mistresses. They had little choice, for Dimitrios had power enough, if they resisted, to bring harm to their hornes, their children or their cornfields. Recently, the situation was complicated by the fact that Dimitrios fell in love with his son's girl. He solved that problem, as the court-martial investigation showed, by denouncing his wife and son to the Communist guerrillas as "fascists." The guerrillas killed both. Dimitrios married the girl and, as a good patriot, renamed her Frederika, after...
Norman Mailer, whose The Naked and the Dead is still a bestselling U.S. novel, was too outspoken for the British. "Incredibly foul and beastly . . . No decent man could leave it lying about the house, or know without shame that his womenfolk were reading it," fumed the Sunday Times in a front-page editorial...
...roamed the mining settlements of the hill country like a hunter; he raided bootleggers (often without benefit of a search warrant), impounded slot machines and took a brutal delight in pistol-whipping lawbreakers and cursing their wives and womenfolk. One day his automobile blew up as he stepped on the starter-somebody had inserted dynamite caps in the engine. Somehow Ambrose Metcalfe walked away unhurt.* Once a moonshiner blasted at him with a shotgun; he was only grazed...
...Theatre Guild) tells of a cocky, penniless young Parisian (Jean Pierre Aumont) with a romantic need, and a remunerative knack, for telling lies. He lands a job with a high-toned black marketeer and in no time arouses love or lust in all the boss's womenfolk-wife (Arlene Francis), daughter (Lilli Palmer), secretary (Doe Avedon). He himself goes for the daughter and takes all evening...
After several days of careful work, the diggers uncovered more postholes outlining a 7½ ft. by 12 ft. building. The floor inside was of earth hard packed by Pinto Man's feet, and in the dirt around the house were grinding stones and pestles his womenfolk had used to prepare his food. Since the postholes were vertical and some five inches in diameter, the house could not have been a lean-to like those built by some primitive Indians. It must have been made of substantial materials, with walls and a roof...