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...Mare's best novels, The Return (1910) and Memoirs of a Midget (1921) are model achievements in mixing realism with a profound sense of the strange. His best stories, especially Seaton's Aunt, have been compared with Henry James's classic Turn of the Screw for their shivery revelation of supernatural influences that might be merely states of mind...
...Turn of the Screw...
...Planning. For seven months the government had tried to screw up its courage to say those last seven words. In September, St. Laurent told the United Nations that the free democracies hoped they would not have to form a security union within...
Dickson, less rugged than most pitchers, relies on a rich assortment of what baseballers call "stuff." He throws six types of pitches (fast ball, curve, slider, knuckler, sinker and screw ball). Says he: "Sometimes early in a game, some of them aren't working so well. So I drop the bad ones and stick with the ones that will do me the most good." All of them were working against the Yankees that...
...hard luck which battered at the skiers hopes all weekend, Laurie Griffin's front throw on his cable broke at the top of the downhill course. Sans hammer or screw-driver, Griffin pushed the throw into the ski, tightened his bindings in the hope that tension would keep the harness intact, and copped 19th place. His time of 79 seconds was eight behind the winner...