Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...little while ago and returned to his ivy-covered home in Washington. He did not have any fresh-caught fish. What he had was a fat, prickly and impressive essay on U.S. foreign policy. Looking a little old, with heavy pouches under his eyes, 58-year-old Walter Lippmann-author of 19 books, New York Herald Tribune columnist since 1931-sat down to put together his thesis, which he called The Cold War. Two secretaries hovered beside him. Western Union stood by to pick up his copy daily at 1 o'clock and transmit it to New York, while...
There were no publisher's cocktail parties last week for Author Capa. He was in Moscow with John Steinbeck, on assignment from the New York Herald Tribune. But in the current '47, his friend John Hersey spoke up for him, giving some lowdown that was news even to Capa's publishers. Capa, said Hersey, is "The Man Who Invented Himself." He was thought up in Paris by a poor Hungarian free-lancer named Andrei Friedmann and his sweetheart, Gerda. The better to sell Friedmann's pictures to unwilling French editors, they palmed them...
Died. Katharine Smith Dos Passos, 51, wife of Novelist John Dos Passos and an author in her own right (The Private Adventure of Captain Shaw, in collaboration with Edith Shay) in an auto accident which cost her husband his right eye in Wareham, Mass...
...eared, sardonic lowan of 42, Harvard cum laude Author Duncan spent ten years on Gus the Great and was nearly broke much of the time. An itinerant writer, teacher and Chautauqua actor, he is the author of three previous novels, all poor sellers. He retired to a trailer to finish Gus the Great, wandering through the West and Southwest. When the money ran low, Duncan hacked out short stories on a 1924 Corona; his wife, Actea, took a secretarial job. The Duncans' first purchase with their new riches: a shiny new Chrysler convertible...
From then on, Author Duncan's ragtag, bobtail characters resemble Betty MacDonald's farmers, except that his chickens lay golden eggs. In the tinseled, brutal world of prancing ponies and pickpockets, Gus acquires money and mistresses. He sells the pickpocket privilege in the show, trims his partner, boosts his own name into stud-horse type. "When business was high the money rolled in so fast there was no time to sort it, so [it was] shoved into a bushel basket. . . . Gus enjoyed picking up the basket and feasting his gaze on that green currency. Sometimes he plunged...