Word: tales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time old Walter Williams passed away at a self-reckoned 117 years, just about every official in Texas knew that he had spun a tall tale about his days as foragemaster of Hood's Texas Brigade in the War Between the States. But for a long time they had believed him and showered him with Confederate honors; then, when a too-enterprising reporter proved in the records that Williams could have been only five years old when Hood was marching, they decided to go right on believing just the same. Last week flags on U.S. Government buildings, ships...
...that sounds as if it was talked on tape at 2 a.m. in the back booth of the Brown Derby, and the reader is often left wondering where the facts leave off and the Flynn-flam begins. But on the whole, My Wicked, Wicked Ways tells an entertaining, cautionary tale about a badly frightened black sheep who tried to prove he was the big, bad wolf and to live up to his public image ("a sword in one hand and a garter in the other...
...Blows. Director Francois Truffaut, another big fish in The New Wave, tells the terrifying tale of a small boy nailed to a cross his parents are too weak to carry (TIME...