Word: authors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.S.S.R., was not really such a bad book-said Khrushchev expansively, "I must say there are certain passages which deserve attention." Deputy Premier Mikoyan, he said, had first put him on to the book, pointing out that there were passages in it that the author literally took from Khrushchev. "Yes," said Khrushchev, Dudintsev had borrowed his own criticisms of Soviet bureaucracy in telling of the frustrations of an inventor trying to get his invention accepted, "but he exaggerated them too much." He said that he would like to meet Dudintsev, who once protested, "I feel a leading string on myself...
Conspicuously not mentioned by Nikita Khrushchev was the best author Russia has, Nobel Laureate Boris Pasternak, but the message to him seemed to be: the heat...
...June issue of Harper's Magazine appeared with a mystical, low-keyed little fishing tale by a brand-new fictioneer. Author of The Great Fish of Como: onetime (1949-53) Secretary of State Dean Acheson, 66, whose rare good fortune it was to have his very first effort published by the first periodical that...
...British Author Aldous (Brave New World Revisited) Huxley, 64, journeyed from his California home to Manhattan, collected $1,000 and a medal from the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "having done the best work of our time in . . . the novel of ideas." In his acceptance speech Huxley modestly disclaimed genius, alluding to an observation by short-necked Honore de Balzac that most men of genius have short necks. Duly noting his own long neck, lanky Novelist Huxley asserted: "Genius, after all, is an alliance of head with heart, and the shorter the neck, the closer that alliance...
...Kansas City office, and New York Broker Chauncey Waddell. ¶ Lord, Abbett & Co., of Manhattan, was brought into the fund field in 1932 by Andrew J. Lord, who was killed when his horse threw him in 1946; it is now run by humor-loving Harry I. Prankard, 56, the author of several books on accounting. It manages one balanced and one common stock fund with assets of $580 million (Affiliated Fund and American Business Shares), is now concentrating on consumer-industry stocks...