Word: wrights
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...away from ships and war as he can in The Story of Esther Costello (Knopf). It is a skillfully written attack on the ruthless ballyhoo which makes an innocent handicapped girl the center of a charity racket. Another novelist who finds it hard to do anything seriously wrong is Wright Morris. In The Deep Sleep (Scribner), he dissects the private lives of a Philadelphia Main Line family, and shows that things aren't what they seem to the neighbors. In his new book, In Love (Harper), Alfred Hayes, author of The Girl on the Via Flaminia, explores an unpleasant...
...cost $90,000, the salesman tells him. When Lindbergh mentions a one-engine job, the salesman's voice turns chill: "Mr. Fokker wouldn't consider selling a single-engine plane for a flight over the Atlantic Ocean." Lindbergh finds a plane and price he likes in a Wright-Bellanca, but the company insists on naming the crew. Obscure mail pilots need not apply...
...Harold's Club as a successful business enterprise. The editors thought it was a good idea, told him to go ahead. When his research was almost completed, McCulloch was taken to the hospital for a midnight emergency appendectomy. By coincidence, TIME'S San Francisco Bureau Chief Al Wright arrived in Reno the next day, learned that McCulloch was temporarily out of action, and picked up the urgent wire queries at Western Union. Says McCulloch: "When Wright arrived at the hospital to find out who he should see at the club, I was riding a Nembutal-generated, pink-hued...
With this misinformation, off to the club went Wright, where he located his man (whose name was Smith), picked up the last details of the story and wired the copy to Beshoar. Later the club's boss, Raymond I. Smith, a hard-bitten New Englander with a sharp eye for a fact, described the story (TIME, May 11) as "the only really accurate piece ever written about the place...
Love Me, Love My Boa. In Carlsbad, N. Mex., District Judge C. Roy Anderson recessed the divorce case of Charles and Dale Wright when the couple could not agree on the value of their common stock: two cobras, two boa constrictors, one anaconda, two eagles, one hawk, four Gila monsters, one owl, five donkeys, two chimpanzees, two African lions, two mountain lions, two lynxes, three raccoons, one coyote, one porcupine, one skunk, one South African rattlesnake, and an unspecified number of Southwestern rattlesnakes...