Word: bromfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...battleground. Sculptor Jo Davidson, engineering a Term IV musical show in Madison Square Garden, had to choose from a wealth of volunteers: Lily Pons, Duke Ellington, Yehudi Menuhin, Marian Anderson. Dinah Shore, Grace Moore, Gene Krupa. Anti-New Deal writers Ru pert Hughes, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Kenneth Roberts, Louis Bromfield, Channing Pollock and Booth Tarkington plotted a Republican victory, and Dorothy Parker, in a big new pirate's hat, furiously attended Term IV luncheons...
WHAT BECAME OF ANNA BOLTON?-Louis Bromfield-Harper...
...Author Bromfield and Authoress Caldwell (British-born Mrs. Marcus Reback of Buffalo) are alike in two respects: both have many readers; both have very theatrical ideas of the world. Their latest novels reveal a further likeness. Both authors appear to have thought that a lush subject for fiction would be the regeneration of fabulously rich Americans by war shock...
...Bromfield unveils Anna Bolton, daughter of an Ohio scrubwoman, as a glittering creature of wealth in Neville Chamberlain's London. He takes her from this lavishly mad prewar society, spots her at the Ritz in Paris while France is falling, has her strafed in her Rolls-Royce in a roadful of refugees, finally sets her down in Unoccupied France to run a village canteen, care for a motherless baby, marry a member of the underground. By this process she "grows a soul." Caldwell reintroduces a family she has written about before, the Bouchards, who are still the blackest-hearted...
...easy-to-read economics that may jolt the complacent U.S. The authors, Cornell University's crisp economist, Frank A. Pearson, professor of prices and statistics, and his ex-graduate student New York State farmer Don Paarlberg, carefully avoided the best-seller technique of sensational prophecy, a la Louis Bromfield (TIME, Feb. 14). But, with genuine alarm and deep conviction, they point to a coming food crisis...