Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most newsmen should know that to call a lawyer a "shyster," an author a "plagiarist," or a doctor a "quack" is usually libelous. But it may surprise them to learn that praising a doctor may be libelous. In Louisiana, a doctor collected damages after the New Orleans Picayune praised an operation he had performed. His claim: the story was, in effect, an ad for him; medical ethics prohibit advertising; his medical standing was therefore damaged...
...Love or Money (by F. Hugh Herbert; produced by Barnard Straus) was kept from becoming a minor Broadway debacle through a Broadway debut. Day after the opening of this knickknack by the author of Kiss and Tell, a shower of glittering adjectives ("captivating," "enchanting," "beguiling") descended on gay, winsome, 22-year-old blonde Ingenue June Lockhart (daughter of stage & screen's Gene and Kathleen Lockhart). Already nicely launched in Hollywood (All This and Heaven Too, Meet Me in St. Louis'), June is pretty certainly Broadway's young thing of the year...
Gentleman's Agreement (20th Century-Fox) is an important experiment, honestly approached and successfully brought off. A middling-fair argumentative novel, in which Author Laura Z. Hobson suggested a way to fight certain kinds of anti-Semitism in the U.S., has been made into an almost overpowering polemical film...
...Author Mott, dean of the University of Missouri's famed journalism school, is not unduly critical of this rubbish. Caught up in the details of exaggerated advertising claims, dubious publishing records and the secretiveness of publishing houses about their sales figures, Dean Mott spends most of his book in an overly conscientious attempt to get at the exact facts about the 324 books he classes as bestsellers* (he excepts Bibles, textbooks, cookbooks). His book's great value is that it is the first thorough exploration into a field which seems much more mysterious the more it is looked...
...novel so gapingly succumbs to the pompous middle-class standards of its own characters. Inflated Bel, a meddling woman busily climbing the social ladder; dough-mouthed Mungo and his horsy noble-blooded bride; rattle-brained David unable to decide between love and honor-these ciphers are fondled by Scottish Author McCrone as if they were creatures whose experience had intrinsic significance and value...