Word: authoring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Divorced. Sacha Guitry, 54, French actor-author-director; by Jacqueline Delubac (Isabelle-Jacqueline Basset), his third wife and leading lady; in Paris. Grounds: desertion. Sacha Guitry's other two marriages were also to his leading ladies (Charlotte Lysès, Yvonne Printemps); both also ended in divorce...
Between chapters Author Steinbeck speaks directly to the reader in panoramic essays on the social significance of the Oakies' story. Burning tracts in themselves, they are not a successful fiction experiment. In them a "social awareness" outruns artistic skill. Steinbeck is a writer, still, of great promise. But this novel's big audience of readers will likely find in it one of the most impassioned and exciting books of the year...
Louisville. Hazy and heaped-up, Louisville, Ky., says Author Leighton, is the museum piece among U. S. cities. There are the battered columns of Nicholas Biddle's once great United States Bank: "now the windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among...
Birmingham. Author Leighton likes Birmingham, Ala. least of his five cities. City of unkept promise, he calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...
...Seattle. Author Leighton writes woodenly about Birmingham, bitingly about Omaha, lyrically about Seattle. He finds the pioneer spirit, dead in Omaha, still flickering in Seattle; in the talk of the loggers on the Skidroad at Yesler Way, in the logging camps, the history of the wobblies and the Weyerhaeuser fortune, in the remark of a Seattle housewife: "I have got to go over to Olympia tomorrow to help put pressure on the governor...