Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Personally, if I never see a movie again, I feel my life would progress quite the same . . . but why, oh why, write such reviews as Hit the Deck [March 14]? I don't believe we should claim that the States has only the best of everything; but, please, don't rub it in. Instead of writing a review on a bad movie, set up another section called "Current & Miserable...
...voice trailed off. After a pause, he blurted: "You know, I find so many interesting things in these speeches, I have to stop and think about them once in a while." At other times he interjected, "It says here," or simply shrugged off the blame: "I didn't write...
...Price: $19.98-$100 Revolving Credit. Boston's First National Bank has started a new-type personal loan based on the revolving credit fund used by business. The bank extends credit to a borrower based on how much he can pay back each month for a year, lets him write checks against it, charges him 1% a month on the outstanding balance and a service charge of 25? a check...
...Roof (by Tennessee Williams) shows again what potentialities its author has and demonstrates what power. But it remains a demonstration rather than an achievement. There is no question how hard Williams can hit, or how vividly he can write, or that, in a theater full of feigned and borrowed emotions, his are honestly hot and angry. But his own feelings, often intemperate, work against him. Perhaps it is the revenge of an age of violence on those who mirror it, that they should themselves seem violent where they mean to be intense, should too often mistake blind assault for implacable...
...MOST CONTAGIOUS GAME, by Samuel Grafton (256 pp.; Doubleday; $3.75), is a fast, offbeat little yarn about a magazine reporter who is handed a money belt with $5,000 and told to sink into the New York City underworld in order to write an exposé. Both the underworld and the police promptly mistake Reporter Dan Lewis for a mobster from Kansas City. After taking a brutal beating, he is put to bed by a brunette bit of fluff who soon climbs in with him. Dan becomes a bodyguard for a gambling czar, kills a man, takes over a bookie...