Word: bromfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Screen Writers' Guild, the proposal has been the cause of red scares and herrings galore. A glance at Cain's opposition, which includes Westbrook Pegler, the Chicago Tribune, and a newly formed group of writers headed by the oldest of the old guard, John Erskine and Louis Bromfield, indicates a weak base for all the shouting. A look at the proposal itself, and the base disappears altogether...
Novelist Howe's satire is not the final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea...
...Street-Brattle Street axis, Miss Howe's special target is the Cambridge cocktail crowd, the effete, hyper-esthetical group which knows all there is to know about Sex, Marxism, and God. The nucleus of the groups consists of several current and choice Harvard professors, notably "Puffer" Wiggam, master of Bromfield House, whose monocled eyes can only see the old school tie when it comes to applications to his house; A. R. Boyer, psychologist and professional Westerner; and Harry Keith, selfish and neurotic professor of History and Literature whose ambition, plus his predilection for other women, causes him to abandon...
...will marry slow-burning Cinemactress Lauren Bacall, 20, his co-star in two pictures (To Have and Have Not, The Big Sleep). When: as soon as his third wife, Mayo ("Sluggy") Methot, serves her six weeks Reno residence for a divorce. Where: the Ohio farm of friend Louis Bromfield...
...exhausted fields. One of the tenants stole, and, when the sheriff ordered him away, broke all the windows in his house. Another started quarrels among the farmers. But for the most part life went pleasantly and rewardingly. Whether anyone but a prosperous novelist could afford such an experiment, Author Bromfield does...