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...This Girl is a Liar." Great dollops of sensitivity and rebellion may be expected in reminiscences of childhood, and poor little Shelagh Delaney is no exception, though the tough, sullen delinquent pose she adopted to protect her secret soul is fairly new in this genre. She is adept at putting the false comic nose on the face of authority, and all get a good laugh from the schoolmaster who told her she was "a long streak of nothing," from Mum, and from the dear silly nuns who had her in charge for a while. We learn without astonishment that they...
...life Stephen Ward had been surrounded by people, a few of them, perhaps, his friends. In death last week he attracted only curiosity seekers, several hundred strong. Nine days after swallowing a massive overdose of Nembutal, Stephen Ward-liar, drug user, pornographer, libertine and convicted pimp-was cremated in the London suburb of Mortlake. Though his solicitor had asked that no flowers be sent, there was a wreath of two hundred roses from, among others, Playwrights John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, Critic Kenneth Tynan, Novelists Angus Wilson and Alan Sillitoe, Jazzman Acker Bilk (who later withdrew his name). With...
...farms to 30 peasant families, Nasser claimed to have documents showing that Brizola bought the farm for $10,000 in 1958 and sold half of it to a peasant cooperative last January for a handsome $21,600. "As one can see," concluded Nasser, "Deputy Leonel Brizola is a liar. He is nothing but a reformist in his own benefit...
Baron Munchausen was a grand character, but he was a fiction. Gaston Bullock Means, however, was for real. When he died at 59 in 1938, he was justifiably reckoned to be just about the most preposterous liar and swindler ever to smile at a sucker. In Spectacular Rogue, Author-Journalist Edwin Hoyt examines that certain smile with more journalistic competence than stylistic flair. Still, Gaston Means himself would be pleased...
Inevitably, Love crossed shovels with brawny opponents. When he stood up for the whole coal industry against John L. Lewis' demands for a three-day work week in 1950, Lewis in his fury borrowed from Shakespeare to dismiss Love as "a liar by the clock." Love good-naturedly responded by asking Lewis for one of his eyebrows to use as a toupee. Eventually Lewis backed down, and today the two old antagonists are friends. Hanging from the wall of Love's Pittsburgh office is an unlikely trinity of photographs: George Humphrey, U.S. Steel's late Ben Fairless...