Word: brandt
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction for the big magazines ("a somewhat ghastly parody on life"), blotted out one character (the narrator's mistress) entirely. All told, Literary Agent Carl Brandt cut about 90,000 words from Wickford Point, before submitting it to the Post...
...hrer was beside himself last week because a Polish Jew, once a resident of Germany, had put two bullets into Ernst vom Rath, third secretary to the Germany Embassy in Paris. Herr Hitler immediately sent his personal physician, Dr. Brandt, to Paris accompanied by the eminent German specialist, Professor Georg Magnus of the university at Munich...
...pianist thumping out The Sheik of Araby to make the audience laugh. But not all of them thought it was funny. One woman complained of the irreverence to the manager: "My God, it's disgraceful." Responsible for the revival of The Sheik in New York was President Harry Brandt of New York's Independent Theatre Owners Association, Inc., who last month announced that a quorum of Hollywood's top-ranking stars were "poison at the box office." Chortled Mr. Brandt, whose picture was doing almost as lively a trade as Mr. Jensen's just down...
...Lorimer garden party in 1909. She handles the magazine's poetry, contacts, encourages, and makes story suggestions to most of the Post's women writers, a few men like F. Scott Fitzgerald. Every Post editor has a string of authors he cultivates, and Erdmann Neumeister Brandt's (whose brother runs the prominent literary agency of Brandt & Brandt) string includes many younger male fictioneers whom he, like Graeme Lorimer, has a knack of developing. Red of face and hair, Associate Editor Martin Sommers, who spills out topical information like a teletype, applies news sense developed...
While Congress did precious little (see col. 2). while many another member of his Administration grew jittery about depression, the President exhibited his peculiar capacity for being comforted by crises. At press conference Correspondent Raymond ("Pete") Brandt of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch asked what the President meant to do about recession now that it was growing worse. Said the President, "It is an assumption. Pete, don't tie my hands...