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Divorced. By Anne Baxter, 29, Oscar-winning cinemactress (All About Eve): John Hodiak, 38, cinemactor (A Bell for Adano, Battleground} ; after 6½ years of marriage, one daughter; in Hollywood...
Best Plays (Fri. 9 p.m., NBC). A Bell for Adano, with Arthur Kennedy, Myron McCormick...
Born. To Anne Baxter, 28, cinemactress (All About Eve), granddaughter of Architect Frank Lloyd Wright, and Actor John Hodiak, 37 (A Bell for Adano, Battleground): their first child, a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Katrina Baxter. Weight...
...Fiction is a clarifying agent," Journalist-Novelist John Mersey (The Wall, A Bell for Adano) wrote in the Writer's Book. "It makes truth plausible ... Journalism allows its readers to witness history; fiction gives its readers an opportunity to live...
Time & Changes. In Hiroshima, Author Hersey turned in one of the best pieces of factual reporting in many a day and in his earlier novel, A Bell for Adano, he achieved a considerable success in the field of fictional treatment of fact in which The Wall is a failure. Comparison of the three gives some measure of his gifts and shortcomings. A Bell for Adano's strength was its immediate relevance to a situation faced by the Allied Military Government in Italy. Time and changes in the situation have worn much of the book's luster away. Author...