Word: bromfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...afternoon of a full life. "If a writer," wrote Ernest in the New York Times Book Review, "became a critic or entered other fields it could lead to grave humiliations . . . Think of how it could shake a writer's confidence to lose the Secretariat of Agriculture to Louis Bromfield in some little smoke-filled room, or wake some morning to find that it was André Malraux who was managing De Gaulle instead of you, or that Jean-Paul Sartre had won the hand of Simone de Beauvoir while you had been left at the post in the Fifth...
...Games. From such macabre work, one might imagine Rose to be a hollow-eyed ascetic; actually he is a gay little blade whose 39 years have been a brilliant whirligig of international fun and games with such friends as Stein, Berard, Cecil Beaton, Louis Bromfield and the Wellington Koos. Rose spent five years studying Chinese art and poetry in China, hurried home to join the R.A.F. in 1939. Married to British Novelist Dorothy Carrington, he now sticks reasonably close to his Chelsea studio...
...friends, who range from Joe Martin, the Robert Tafts, and the Fred Vinsons to Omar Bradley and Louis Bromfield, find her a likable, kindly woman. Bromfield pronounces her "one of the gayest people I know-she could give you a good time if she had only a five-cent beer." They suspect that she is lonely. With the bounty of a childless woman, she lavishes affection on her blonde niece Betty Tyson, whose Newport coming-out party in 1945 was the gaudiest shindig since before the war. Her restlessness has found outlets in her parties and such causes...
...Sports Afield, $50 was a high price for contributors, and the magazine looked it. Ted Resting raised the rates to as much as $500 for stories and $400 for illustrations. He replaced the shopworn "Me and Joe went fishing" type of story with pieces by such writers as Louis Bromfield, George Sessions Perry and Donald Culross Peattie. He also took off on crusades (a current anti-pollution series is called Running Sores On Our Land), and hired a Washington correspondent to keep up with conservation news and legislation. As circulation rose, so did Ted Resting's salary...
...Presidential Candidate (for the sixth time) Thomas, U.S. readers would be exposed to all shades of opinion by all varieties of domestic and imported experts. Among them: Cartoonist David Low (for LIFE); Randolph Churchill and ex-Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce (United Features); Rebecca West (Canada Wide Features) ; Novelists Louis Bromfield and Katharine Brush (I.N.S...