Word: anderson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...celebrate its 25th birthday last week, the Saturday Review of Literature (circ. 92,000) rounded up a literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue...
...trails were cut when Sherwood Anderson rebelled against the O. Henry plot formula, when Theodore Dreiser discarded the genteel tradition, and when Ernest Hemingway sharpened and toughened the language. But the trails that were fresh and even perilous a few decades ago are now dusty and routine, and most of the writers in Miss Foley's collection are still stumbling along them...
...PEYTON ANDERSON Macon Telegraph Publisher...
...Macon Telegraph (circ. 34,000) had as many readers as the Kudzu Kid's Atlanta Constitution (circ. 187,000), Publisher Anderson's case for his farm editor would carry more weight. It is nevertheless true that Sue Myrick, born & raised on an oldtime cotton plantation, knows the answers to many Southern questions.* Her pet promotion is soil conservation, and she has done much to popularize the Blue Lupine, as Cope has the Kudzu...
Born. To Burt Lancaster, 35, cinema hard guy (The Killers, Brute Force), and Norma Anderson Lancaster, 32: their third child, first daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Susan Elizabeth. Weight...