Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blackened chimneys were all that remained of two resort hotels, the Belmont and the Malvern. The summer homes of Author Mary Roberts Rinehart, Conductor Walter Damrosch, the late Henry Morgenthau Sr. and scores of other wealthy people had burned as though they were built of butter pats and bacon rinds. U.S. cancer research had received a terrible blow. The red-brick Jackson Memorial Laboratory, with its irreplaceable records and 90,000 precious mice, which had been carefully inbred for generations to produce various manifestations of cancer, had been destroyed...
Scarlett O'Hara's creator, Atlantan Margaret Mitchell, made a gracious Old Confederate response to a compliment. British Cinemagnate J. Arthur Rank's wife, Nell, had said something nice about Gone With the Wind on a visit to Atlanta last summer; but Author Mitchell was away at the time. So now, at length, she made the reciprocal gesture. To Mrs. Rank she sent a note of thanks, and enclosed a souvenir $5 Confederate bill...
...heroine of Therese is mired in a tight bourgeois world of money, damp country houses and spiritual smugness. Bored with her oafish husband, she tries to poison him. The poison plot is discovered and the husband recovers. Therese is kicked out and sent to Paris, where Author Mauriac harrowingly portrays her disintegration. Like all his sinners, she tries to repent. A confession scene in which Therese was absolved, says Mauriac, was torn up, because "I could not see the priest who would have possessed the qualifications necessary if he was to hear her confession with understanding...
...Author Mauriac is no peddler of religious tracts; one need not share his faith to appreciate his virtues as a novelist. Few of his characters achieve spiritual peace, but they get rid of the self-deception that stands...
...Author. Aging (62) François Mauriac, a leading Roman Catholic opponent of the Franco regime in Spain, joined the resistance movement during World War II. Producing clandestine pamphlets, newspapers and books with such fellow writers & artists as Communist Poet Louis Aragon, he learned to respect the fighting qualities of the Communists. After the war he sought for a way to bring the U.S. and Russia together, has since decided that compromise is impossible. He now writes editorials for Paris' conservative daily Figaro, advocating a strong, vigilant western world under U.S. leadership...