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Gauntlets and Grease. Next day, before breakfast coffee had well settled in pollywog bellies, a full-whiskered Neptunus Rex arrived on the fantail. He was attended by Davy Jones and Queen Amphitrite (a tough, blond Marine sergeant wearing enormous falsies and rope-yarn hair). As No. 1 Pollywog, Truman was first-but was let off easy. He was merely ordered to give his autograph to each member of Neptune's court, and to furnish his staff with Corona cigars forever. Margaret was directed to lead a group in Anchors Aweigh, which she did falteringly...
...first yarn in English about an interplanetary voyage was Bishop Godwin's Man in the Moone (1638), in which birds called "gansas" dragged an astounded visitor there in a dozen days. Another early example was Holberg's Journey to the World Under Ground (1742)-a world of clockwork ships, male prostitutes and learned monkeys. The anonymous Aerostatic Spy (1785) described a balloon trip around the globe...
Your story on Hedda Hopper (TIME, July 28) was a titillating yarn, but what stopped me in my tracks was the cover portrait of Hedda, complete with headgear composed of the implements of her trade...
Appearance and Reality: A suavely naughty yarn about an aging French industrialist and Senator who philosophically finds his mistress even more attractive after she marries another...
...outlying part of the city of Malden, Mass., on the outskirts of Boston. Employing either the faculty of total recall or a ready knack for improvisation, Paul sets down in detail a persuasive picture of New England life at the turn of the century. Author Paul is essentially a yarn-spinner, and Linden is largely a string of amusing and often indelicate anecdotes, but those who knew the area and the people will vouch for the genuine flavor...