Word: authorative
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article brought an immediate call at the Foreign Office from German Minister Prinz Viktor zu Wied, who called it a gross insult on the person of the Field Marshal. The author of that gross insult, it turned out, was none other than the Knight of the Silver Shield-Nils Silfver sköld, brother-in-law of Field Marshal Göring...
...that it is a U. S. best-seller,÷ a German publishing firm prepared to bring out All This, and Heaven Too in Germany, asked Author Rachel Lyman Field for permission to put her name on the title page simply as "Lyman Field." Reason: by Nazi decree, Rachel is one of the names officially allotted to German Jewesses. Aryan Author Field refused...
...real name is André Isaac. He is a singer, an actor sometimes at the Deux Anes (Two Asses) theatre, author and editor of the funpaper L'Os à Moelle (Marrowbone). Each weekday at 13 h. 5 ( 1:05 p. m.) for the last year he has sent Parisians by the hundreds rummaging high & low for varying collections of oddments, to be produced within two hours at a designated rendezvous. An open street is usually necessary for the arriving candidates and their equipages. This was evident from the start, when the first after noon hundreds of participants piled into...
...Author last year showed his knack for popularization in his bestseller, Kindling, the tale of a Banker Bountiful who rescues an unemployed shipyard town. More effective, Ordeal gives him material closer home. Pilot in the Royal Air Force Reserve, Author Shute (real name: Nevil Shute Norway) was deputy chief engineer (later chief) of construction of the airship R100, sailed with her on the first trip to Canada. In 1931 he formed an airplane company, saw it grown to 1,000 employes when he resigned last April. Ordeal to the contrary, Author Shute declares he is no alarmist. Average casualty rate...
...Author grew up in the Kentucky tobacco country described in Night Rider. Lanky, redheaded, softspoken, Robert ("Red") Penn Warren, 34, has written a biography of John Brown, a volume of verse (Thirty-Six Poems), a number of short stories, is an editor of The Southern Review, best of current U. S. literary quarterlies. Night Rider is his first novel. A literary gamut-runner, who works day & night, he is now writing a play about the contemporary South. He was educated at Vanderbilt, Yale, Oxford, the University of California. Since 1934 he has been an English professor at Louisiana State University...