Word: waterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This Monkey Business is no great shakes as a work of art, except for an exquisite moment when Miss Rogers drops a goldfish down Charles Coburn's pants. There is a lot of running around and yelling, some funny, some not; Coburn sits on a pie, and squirts water in various directions; Marilyn Monroe, impersonating a blonde secretary, tells Grant, "Mr. Oxley's been complaining about my punctuation, so I've been careful to get here before nine"; the thing ends with Grant and Miss Rogers in a snugly marital clinch...
...Ohio ran downhill; the sprawling, river-fed cities fed back a byproduct of civilization-raw sewage and industrial wastes -until the great stream became an open sewer. Game fish bellied up and died; riverfront Manhattan Beach, near Bellevue, Ky., was covered with a foul slime; Louisville's water system doused river water so heavily with chemicals that the citizens howled; on its best days, the river gave off the medicinal odor of phenol poured out of coke ovens. For decades the river cities and towns complained to each other about the mess coming from upstream, contributed to the mess...
...charity clients. In 1935 he got the backing of the Cincinnati Enquirer and the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce, was made chairman of a committee that set out to sell a cleanup program, shocked regional audiences and newspaper readers with crude, graphic facts. One quart in every gallon of Ohio water was raw sewage, equal to "700 dead horses floating by Cincinnati every day," he said. "We in Cincinnati can always tell when people in Pittsburgh have had asparagus for dinner...
CONCRETE CRIME, by Manning Coles (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), places Tommy Hambledon, the British Foreign Office's top raincoat man, in grave danger of being submersed in a barrel of water, sand, and quick-hardening cement. But the henchman who intends to put him there makes a false hench, and guess who ends in the barrel? The trail leads to Paris, then Dijon and points worse. Author Coles's story is diverting enough, even if some of his swashes are carelessly buckled...
BILLY LIAR (191 pp.}- Keith Water-house-Norton...