Word: allene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME'S book reviewer should review his arithmetic. After mentioning [TIME, March 7] that Hervey Allen's Anthony Adverse contains 1,224 pages, TIME'S critic states that writing at the rate of two pages a day it took Author Allen five years to complete his masterpiece...
...rate of two pages a day, assuming that Mr. Allen labored five days a week, took a two-weeks' vacation each year and yearly observed the seven national holidays, it is mathematically apparent that Anthony Adverse should contain 2,430 pages...
...printing press, Author Allen turned out two pages of manuscript (not printed pages...
Assisting the regular staff was an unusually large turnout of Seniors including last year's captain, Russ Allen, Joe Nee, and Chuck Klein, who were working with the guards, and Ralph Pope with the backs...
...idea of Ken apparently savored too much of historical study, and not enough of gumshoeing to suit Messrs. Smart & Gingrich. So he, virtually his entire staff and all their works were scrapped. To take Jay Allen's place came another onetime Tribune correspondent, George Seldes, iconoclastic author of You Can't Print That! and Sawdust Caesar. But another snag turned up. Prospective advertisers balked at taking space in what they regarded as a pinko magazine. Ken became anti-communist as well as antifascist, some of its bright young liberal contributors were alienated and George Seldes, while retained...