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Resettled at Zurich, Joyce taught at the Berlitz school, as he had at Trieste. Mrs. Joyce remembers poverty and small apartments, "long on mice, short on kitchen utensils." But Joyce was happy, worked hard on Ulysses, enjoyed drinking white wine with English Painter Frank Budgen at the Cafe Pfauen. Lenin used to frequent the same cafe, but the literary and the proletarian revolutionists never...
...girl watching the dancers was beautiful but pale. Two young men introduced themselves, danced with her. found her hands cold and clammy. They gave her wine, but she spilled it on her white frock. After the dance they started to drive her to an address she gave. At a cemetery she asked to be let out of the car. One of the boys threw his coat over her shoulders, followed her into the graveyard. She vanished, he fell dead. Panic-stricken, the other-boy drove to the address she had given, there learned that the girl had died several months...
...Michigan taxes domestic wines 4? a gallon, out-of-state wine 50?. Many other States war on each other with preferential taxes on liquor, beer, wine...
From then on, reported Ambassador Bowers, the Rebels' problem was not how to keep him in jail but how to keep him out. He was given the freedom of Salamanca, but kept getting into trouble because of red wine rather than Red ideology. The city just could not get rid of him. Once, just before he was to be exchanged back to the Loyalists, he announced publicly: "I don't give a damn about a cause. I'm fighting for money." The Loyalists took someone else. And ever since, Harold E. Dahl has been Peck...
...writing, none of the preciousness that has previously marred it. Old Mortality tells of the legend-haunted girlhood and runaway marriage of Miranda, a skinny, freckle-nosed Southern girl who is such a relief after traditional Southern belles that she is almost an achievement in herself. Noon Wine is a deceptively artless picture of life on a South Texas farm, written with such quiet good nature that, when it suddenly turns into a tale of murder and suicide, the transition is almost as shocking as the events themselves. Pale Horse, Pale Rider, the title story, brings Miranda back, separated from...