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Four Winds (by Thomas W. Phipps) has to do with an immensely rich, exceedingly harassed, many-times-married heiress. All about her Palm Beach house are nest-featherers and heiress-fleecers: aunts and doctors and private secretaries, former and future husbands. The heiress herself is usually up and about by midafternoon, a sort of party-girl Ophelia given to the champagne shakes. Then a visiting poet takes her for a day in the sunshine and bids her go away and find herself...
...close police pal Gerhard Raebiger, he removed fuses from some 8,000 dud bombs, some 10,000 grenades. Through the years of reconstruction he was on call day and night, sometimes working 48 hours at a stretch on some particularly ticklish job. Once, when rubble removers uncovered a nest of three blockbusters smack in the middle of a heavily populated apartment district, he shoveled away the rubble himself to get at them; then for 18 hours he sweated out the delicate job of taking the fuses out of the lurking monsters. In May 1952, Stephan and Raebiger won the West...
Many Venoms. The company uses one of the common, hairless wasps (Polistes fuscatus), which usually nest under eaves or porches, in barns or garages; a hornet (Dolichovespula arenaria), which is distinguished from the typical yellow jacket by having an extra black plate between the eye and the lower jaw, and by building football-shaped nests well above ground; a yellow jacket (V. pennsylvanica), which nests underground or in crevices in rocks or walls; and the domestic honeybee (Apis mellifera...
...Affair to Remember (20th Century-Fox) drags Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr over as bumpy a road to love as Hollywood has ever contrived. Deborah is an elegantly kept (by Richard Denning) lady with a Park Avenue lust nest; Cary is a charm-laden bachelor on the verge of merging with America's heiress with the mostest (Neva Patterson). From the moment they meet on a transatlantic liner, this cynical, money-grabbing pair feel an overwhelming compulsion to give up their comfortable arrangements for a tumble into each other's arms...
...tourists and fewer novelists visit the Molise region, which stretches, a withered Achilles tendon, above the heel of the Italian peninsula. Novelist Giose Rimanelli, who was born in this doomed place, has produced a bitter fictional report centered on a village that hangs like an abandoned bird's nest on a waterless escarpment between the Apennine Mountains and the Adriatic. His story, in translation at least, is as stiff, ill-fitting and yet appropriate as a peasant's wedding suit...