Word: authored
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...smiles, Lawyer Stevenson made no measurable progress in the mission that took him behind the Iron Curtain: trying to persuade Soviet officialdom to pay author's royalties to Stevenson clients (including Pearl Buck, John Hersey, Arthur Miller, Upton Sinclair) whose works are published in the Soviet Union. Said Stevenson wanly before heading for Warsaw and points west: "The Minister of Culture is studying the matter further...
...Author Ernest Hemingway was bull-mad. Esquire magazine angered him by proposing to reprint three Hemingway stories about the Spanish civil war without his O.K. Then his own Manhattan lawyer added to Papa's fury by implying in court that the Old Man of the Plea did not want the stories in print because they favored the Red-backed Spanish Loyalists. Rumbled Papa: "I gave him hell for it. I have not changed my attitude about the Spanish civil war. I was for the Loyalists, and I still feel that way about the Loyalists." Actually, explained Hemingway, the stories...
Working in the Connecticut woods on a new play, Author Arthur (The Crucible) Miller reached what may be the last act of a personal drama. By a 9-0 decision, a U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals chucked out his 1957 contempt-of-Congress conviction (sentence: 30 days in jail, suspended, $500 fine) for refusing to tell the Un-American Activities Committee the names of Communist writers he knew in 1947. Grounds for the reversal: Miller was not told clearly by the committee that refusal to give the names constituted contempt. Said Miller: "My only regret is that...
TOMORROW Is MANAMA, by Shirley Deane (198 pp.; Morrow; $4), is an altogether different book about Spain-unassuming, observant and pretending to no deeper understanding than a year's residence can give a foreign visitor. Australian Author Deane tells wittily and without prattling of the quiet adventures she had with her artist husband and two small sons during their stay in an Andalusian fishing village. Without caricature, describing people and not types, the author presents the villagers-the fishermen who starve with grace when rough weather keeps their motorless vessels ashore, the aging, middle-class virgins who embroider napkins...
...rule are presented: the steel-hard Guardia Civil, whose men garrison each small town; the squirmings of a dictator who is afraid to travel an announced route for fear of assassination; the indoctrination of the students. But for most of the villagers, gaiety and great pride overcome grimness. Author Deane is aware that there are lessons to be learned, as well as taught in Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone does, the mixture "foments...