Word: offbeat
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...Night) Capra insists that this time he is playing it straight. After years of research he is anxious to get started filming the life of St. Paul, and he has already picked his leading man: Frank Sinatra. "I'll admit that at first Sinatra seems a little offbeat for the role," says Capra. "When I first mentioned it to him, I think he was shocked. But there's no doubt about his acting ability, or his depth of feeling, and when you remember what kind of man St. Paul was when he started out -he started...
Died. Max Sherover, 70, founder (1929) and president of the Linguaphone Institute of America, which offers a $60 phonograph record course in any of 34 languages and such offbeat items as a Dormiphone, which drills a student in vocabulary while he sleeps; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Polish-born Sherover once edited a socialist newspaper in Buffalo, published a five-language trade journal in Japan, built a Brooklyn hotel. Able to converse in twelve languages, he used to startle garrulous cab drivers by correctly guessing their birthplaces...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late novelist's last testament to offbeat life, suggesting that a sinning outsider may have the inside track...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist's last testament to offbeat life, suggesting that a sinning outsider may have the inside track...
...Captive and the Free, by Joyce Gary. The late British novelist's last testament to offbeat life richly portrays a tawdry faith healer who suggests that a sinning outsider may have the inside track...