Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Donol Hedlund, a respected and influential Seattle mortgage banker, flushed deeply, swallowed hard, spun the saddest yarn of all. With Joseph McEvoy, the nephew of Beck's wife, and one other associate, Hedlund established the National Mortgage Co., thanks partly to the $35,000 contribution from Uncle Dave to McEvoy. Then Hedlund, Beck and Teamster Lawyer Simon Wampold organized an outfit called the Investment Co., which drew brokerage commissions on Teamster money invested by Beck. Through the mortgage company, Beck put a tidy $9,000,000 in Teamster funds into mortgages, and through this company, Beck's family...
Visit to a Small Planet (by Gore Vidal) attracted considerable attention as a satirical TV yarn about a man from a distant and civilized planet who. via flying saucer, visits his "hobby," the Earth. It later aroused considerable speculation as to how, without being sadly watered down, a good saucerful of TV fun could fill a regulation soup bowl of a play. The problem has been solved, on the whole quite happily, by not turning Visit to a Small Planet into a play. It has been turned, instead, into a kind of vaudeville show, with two expert comedians, Cyril Ritchard...
...wholesome. It is an energetic attempt to prove that what was done so deftly in the '30s, Hollywood's golden age of light comedy, can be done just as well in the '50s. Producer Edmund Grainger has lavished a sumptuous production on the slight yarn, and given the lead roles to Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds, a celebrated young married couple in real life who recently produced a bundle of joy on their own. The film also has eight new tunes and Technicolor...
...Martin Eden, in which London saw himself as a "rough, uneducated sailor" who ends a suicide. There are also remarkably evocative eyewitness accounts (the San Francisco earthquake, a typhoon off Japan) and 25 short stories, some of them little known. Among the best: Jan, the Unrepentant, a hilarious yarn in which some trappers prepare to hang a suspected murderer, and The Law of Life, about an Eskimo abandoned in the icy wilderness with only a few sticks of firewood between him and death...
After months of work on the rug, the Chief discovered that both the strings of the loom and the knots of the yarn must be very loose, with seven strings to the inch. With the tension of the loom eased, everything then unfolded, and he began his excursion into mysticism. When the rug, with its prediction of World War II, was completed Ridd took it to a connoisseur. The expert refused to believe that Ridd had woven it, and from the design of the work judged it to be from the seventh century of Persian rug-making...