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The actors try hard to deal with the strained situation into which Mr. Stewart has thrust them, but they are even further burdened because the author has sought to redeem his efforts by larding the lines with metaphor. The idealist, for example, has "gotten off the merry-go-around" and...
But the commodore sticks to his guns, even though they aren't loaded; Farbridge has its festival, a merry one indeed, and the former naval person devolves into the arms of a wealthy, amiable semi-lunatic. All of which, says the book's jacket, "proves that life'...
This set off another round of outraged complaints from the United Labor Policy Committee. Its grievance, it cried in effect, was the freeze on wages (at a ceiling 10% above Jan. 1950) while prices kept going up and Big Business went its merry way.
Nancy Chaffee, 21, a merry bundle of bounce, tells people, "I'm a ham." Last fall at Forest Hills she was soundly defeated by Mrs. du Pont. Chastened but not discouraged, Nancy went home to Ventura, Calif, and set herself a practice schedule: 3½ hours a day, six...
Jam-Bang, Blue Eyes. Ride Home Tomorrow supplies all this, as well as other ingredients essential to popular historical fiction. Hero Andres Vaeringer is a handsome, upstanding fellow with a vast curiosity about the world. Born & bred in Norway, he quarrels with his crusty stepfather and flees to England-just...