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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To James Thomas Farrell, 43, author of the sad and sordid Studs Lonigan trilogy, and Hortense Alden Farrell: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: John Stephen. Weight...
Hanns, Hollywood composer and author of a new book criticizing the movies (TIME, Sept. 29), sweated and squirmed under the Washington kleigs as he listened to Committee Chief Investigator Robert Stripling describe him as "the Karl Marx of Communism in the field of music." Like Brother Gerhart, Hanns demanded the privilege of reading a statement to the committee. Chairman J. Parnell Thomas shouted an angry refusal. Thereupon, like Brother Gerhart, Eisler handed out typewritten copies of his statement to newsmen: "This hearing is both sinister and ridiculous. ... I would be delighted to spend as much time as this committee will...
Novello is the author of 22 plays (of which only two have been flops). His triumphant Dancing Years is still moving blithely from province to province after a marathon run of eight years. He played his first stage role in 1921, partly because his family disapproved, and wrote his first play in 1924 with Constance Collier. His songwriting career began even earlier. During World War I his mother, a well-known English music teacher, announced her intention of composing a patriotic song. "She did," explains Novello brightly, "and it was perfectly ghastly. So I wrote one myself." It was Keep...
Paris-born Scientist-Author du Noüy was at one time a member of the Rockefeller Institute, head of biophysics at the Pasteur Institute, a director of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes at the Sorbonne. As a young officer in the French Army, he met Biologist Alexis Carrel (Man, the Unknown), under whose influence he became deeply interested in biophysics. In 1937, he attracted international attention with his book Biological Time ("Everything occurs as if sidereal time flowed four times faster for a man of 50 than for a child...
...Fischer proposes to offset Communism, not with capitalism, but with a kind of quasi-socialism which he describes as "mixed-economy planning." "When the government and private capital are both in industry there can be competition. . . . The democratic world cannot prosper unless the British Labor Government succeeds." At times Author Fischer fumbles all over the ideological map: "Farmland should be as free as air. It should not be bought or sold . . . equality of wealth would eradicate the power advantage now inherent in wealth.. . . Marx and Gandhi might make a fruitful combination." In his honest but disjointed eagerness to defeat...