Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...well equipped to tackle the job. He was raised in Hollywood where his father, B. P. (for Benjamin Percival) Schulberg, has been a top producer for 20-odd years. Since graduating from Dartmouth in 1936, he has worked off & on as a screen writer. In a neatly organized yarn about a little Jew named Sammy Click, who soars from a $12-a-week office boy on a Manhattan daily to head of a studio before he is 30, Budd Schulberg gathers in the stray and unconnected bric-a-brac which forms the composite Hollywood, fits it into a whole like...
...gone through a lot of money, Banker Gerard has never seen any of it. Last week in Los Angeles court he sued for his share. Scotty, affable and fanciful as ever for all of 65 years and a gleaming shiner ("A mule kissed me," he explained), spun a fine yarn of a hillside currency cache which unhappily washed away when the rains came. The judge tolerantly termed him "a confessed cheat," observed that here was one hick who had trimmed city slickers. Broker Gerard, still friendly enough with Scotty to shake hands, hoped at least...
...tons, including an armed trawler and a good-sized supply ship; the capture of 215 Germans and ten Quislingist Norwegians; the carrying off of 300 Norwegian patriots who wanted to fight for Britain; and-here was the propaganda-the distribution to Norwegians of food, cigarets, chocolates, wool yarn and high heart. From Stockholm it was reported that the Germans answered this bagatelle with considerable fury: by fining the Svolvoerans 100,000 crowns, burning the homes of the escaped patriots, arresting some who abetted the British...
...field of the legitimate novel and gets the Literary Guild's accolade for March. Benjamin Blake has everything a best-seller needs: an alliterative title, a fat part for Tyrone Power when it reaches the films, and the ingredients of what critics like to call a rattling good yarn. It is set in the 18th Century, sauced with its political restiveness, and skillfully served up in a fake-archaic, first-person prose that has fibre enough to support a novel twice as serious...
...more strict than any the landlubber knows, yet it is a microcosm of the wider world and its hierarchical values. Upon this parallel, Marcus Goodrich has built the story of Delilah, a U. S. destroyer, a world of 71 men. By any standards, it is a top-notch yarn. But what frames the story, gives it symbolic sense, restrains the turbulent narrative from getting too diffuse, clarifies each character, even makes amends for the faulty structure of the plot, is the bony morality...