Word: authors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third program, Harry Golden, author of Only in America and For 2c Plain, will present "Sketches of American Life." The fourth program will include the head of the Algerian delegation to the U.N., who will discuss common problems with a panel of Frenchmen...
...author visited Cuba this summer under the auspices of "Operacion Amistad," a program sponsored by the government and by Havana University. Planned tours took him to cooperatives and conferences, unplanned tours to the offices of journalists and government officials...
...Early in the operation, Wingate was killed in the crash of a U.S. plane. Military men still argue the value of Wingate's tactical ideas. The U.S. borrowed them for Merrill's Marauders (TIME, April 30) with equally inconclusive results. In this able but densely written biography. Author Christopher (Four Studies in Loyalty) Sykes insists there can be no doubt of their psychological importance. Wingate proved to a disheartened army that British troops could be as adept at jungle fighting as the Japanese. To beleaguered Britain, his exploits brought a badly needed exhilaration, after the long succession...
...Author Ellis' descriptions of the medical treatments are themselves enough to turn all but the most indifferent stomachs. In writing so exact that the reader constantly wants to cry halt, Author Ellis mounts a picture of torture-Davenant's bloody sputum, his overpowering fatigue, his successive operations. With a callousness that is often the byproduct of continuously observed suffering, doctors compete for reputation and experiment with various treatments, while the confused patient gains hope, loses it, and finally subsides in confusion. Awkward nurses blunder, the food drives patients to mutiny; in the background lurks the cut-price competition...
...resulting thesis novel is Author...