Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Happy Ending. O-Yuki herself refused to read it. Silver-haired and unwrinkled at 66, she was living in retirement at Kyoto. She has steadfastly refused to see the book's author or to give him any information. But, outside of a few invented romantic incidents, 60-year-old Novelist Mikihiko Nagata is pretty confident of his accuracy. In any case, he says, 0-Yuki's is a truly beautiful love story "because, unlike Madame Butterfly, the ending is not tragic...
Died. Henry James, 68, winner of the 1930 Pulitzer prize for biography (Charles W. Eliot), eldest son of Pragmatist-Philosopher William James, nephew and namesake of Author Henry James; of a heart ailment in Manhattan...
Died. Arthur Machen, 84, British author; in Beaconsfield, England. Deeply affected by the death of 5,000 British soldiers in the Battle of Mons (1914), he wrote a mystical short story, The Bowmen, which inspired a sincere belief in many Tommies that they had actually seen Saint George and his archers striking down the Germans on the battlefields...
...clinician" who presented most of the data was Harold Nicolson, urbane British author, onetime diplomat and M.P. To nail the "popular fallacy" that creative writers are prone to be sickly, psychopathic, and "doomed to an untimely death," Nicolson examined the health and lives of Britain's literary great. "Since of all writers poets are . . . the most 'creative,' I . . . concentrate my observations upon the behavior and temperament of poets." Some of his findings...
...Streetcar Named Desire (by Tennessee Williams; produced by Irene Selznick) goes off the track now & then-which is a small price to pay for its staying off the beaten track entirely. It is a fresh, vivid drama, revealing that the author of The Glass Menagerie is not only much more of a poet than most of his fellow playwrights, but much more of a realist as well...