Word: yarns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Strategic Air Command, a favorite bull-session yarn tells of a new sergeant at Omaha's Offutt Air Force Base who stopped on a stroll around the post to watch a middle-aged airman at work on a snappy sports car. "Let me give you a lift," he said finally. "I don't see how you ever got to be a sergeant handling a wrench that way." The man in overalls was General Curtis E. LeMay, SAC's commander (who is actually a first-class mechanic). By last week one phase of Curt LeMay's passion...
Anyone willing to believe that a grown shark will take a small boy to be his friend instead of his lunch can have some mildly shocking fun with a sly yarn called Son of Ti-Coyo. A sequel to Ti-Coyo and His Shark (published in 1951), it is so neatly laced with urbane craft and malice that many parents will think twice before sharing it with the kiddies...
...ages, but for the nearest hammock. Elliot Paul's Desperate Scenery and Alexandra Orme's Paris Original are light summer fare, earmarked for twin hammocks stamped "His" and "Hers." Author Paul who often as not writes about Paris, this time has written an autobiographical boy-faces-life yarn set in the remote reaches of 1910 Idaho and Wyoming. Authoress Orme's novel is a girl-meets-love story set in the feline, high-fashion world of postwar Paris. Each book lightheartedly holds a slightly askew mirror up to human nature and smiles bittersweetly at what it sees...
...than $30,000. Today, after seven years of operating under Japan's newly liberalized labor laws, Ohmi has grown into a $3,000,000 corporation, whose 13,000 employees and half a million humming spindles have helped push it up to sixth place in Japan's vital yarn industry. The formula by which Ohmi's boss, fat, arrogant Kakuji Natsukawa, has achieved this success is simple: he has paid little attention to the labor laws...
...stand, he picked up his needles and, with tight-lipped concentration, knitted at a purple and gold stole. He said that he is not now a Communist Party member, declined, under the Fifth Amendment, to say if he had ever been a Communist, and tugged at the ball of yarn in his pocket...