Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navymen last week were chuckling over a new and true yarn...
Except for the beating they took on the picture, other Manhattan papers and the press associations were close behind the News. Even the usually sedate, aloof New York Times took down its hair, assigned crack Reporter Meyer Berger to the yarn, gave it top-of-Page-One display. And for the first time in its haughty history, the Times let words like homosexuality creep into its columns. All over the U.S. newspapers made room for the kind of news most people like to read. One day's News had 251 column-inches devoted to sex & crime, 145 devoted...
MURDER IN HAVANA -George Harmon Coxe -Knopf ($2). A speedily paced yarn of intrigue, murder and sultry females in Havana. A U.S. engineer, carrying valuable papers, is the hero. A rare assortment of shady malefactors try to steal his secrets. International villainy served up in Mr. Coxe's best manner...
...times the boys have filled in their yarn with bright cracks, but at other times they merely make charts...
...GRINNING PIG - Nap Lombard - < Simon & Schuster ($2). Two successful slayings and sundry near misses by a pig-masked killer keep a whole crew of English detectives - amateur and professional - on the jump. An amusing, almost unguessable, exciting yarn, as bright as paint and thoroughly unprincipled...