Word: tales
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Every year about this time, the lamentable Legend of Sydney Pumpton '47 rises to the minds of Seniors like a half-saturated log that has been stirred loose from the bottom of a pond. The tale is passed gingerly from mouth to mouth at breakfast and dinner tables. And Seniors are sore afraid...
...Committee reported yesterday that ticket sales are 500 percent over what they were last year at this time. In an age of darkness and insecurity, Seniors are heeding the Legend and are taking no chances. Most of them, that is. A few, apparently, have not heard Pumpton's tale, or they have received it in garbled form. We repeat it here for their benefit only...
Charles Osborne contributed two stories. The first, called "The Egg Thing," is dry and dull but the second, a fairy tale about an atom bomb that "Felt things," is well handled. Osborne's humor is subtle and he has a flair for satire...
Cinderella. Walt Disney's version of the fairy-tale classic (TIME...
...burnish that Co-Author Charmian Clift brings to her husband's moral tale was good enough, despite a tendency to purple prose, to help win High Valley the ?2,000 first prize in an Australian novel contest in 1948. The book will also gen erally please readers who like Oriental stories to have Oriental endings. Those who prefer Southern California endings should be warned that High Valley is not James Hilton's Shangri...