Word: authors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the blue and surf-ringed isolation of French-owned Tahiti, Author James Norman Hall (Pitcairn's Island, Mutiny on the Bounty) decided that the world's dirty, teeming and fear-ridden old nests of civilization needed a word of cheer. After noting, with obvious satisfaction, that French Oceania was free of the ships, planes and men which cluttered it up during World War II, he sent TIME two items of news about its people...
Last week the physicists were herded into line too. The Literary Gazette published two loud blasts against leading Russian physicists. Professor Y. I. Frenkel, author of a book on atomic energy, was accused of "promulgating the quantum theory in the disguise of Marxist dialectical robes." Professors M. Markov and V. Svidersky were denounced for "idealistic and formalistic" conceptions in atomic theory which are "nothing but conceptions admitting the existence of a limit to knowledge...
Married. Ralph McAllister Ingersoll, 47, author (The Battle Is the Payoff, Top Secret), founder and onetime editor of PM (now the N.Y. Star); and Mrs. Mary Hill Doolittle, 34, Pittsburgh socialite-cellist; he for the third time, she for the second; in Lakeville, Conn...
...guiding hand of the author probably also had a great deal to do with the fine acting, especially that of Hugh Franklin and Polly Rowles, as the father and mother. Their performances could hardly be improved upon. Mr. Franklin has been consistently creditable in all three plays, but this is the first time Miss Rowles has seemed satisfactorily cast. Joseph Foley is outstanding as the elder son and the Practical Man. His performance stands out way above the play itself...
When Hungarian-born Author Hans Habe (A Thousand Shall Fall), then a U.S. Army major, founded the paper in 1945, he hired the best non-Nazi German talent on the market. Some of the Zeitung's specialists make $750 a month. The paper can afford to pay well. It pays neither rent nor taxes, accepts no ads, and rakes in (along with its sister periodicals) $5,000,000 a year. But few U.S. newsmen, accustomed to the hustle of city rooms, would feel at home in the Zeitung. Every staffer above the rank of cub has his own office...