Word: budd
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Philadelphia the Third U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals did something to correct this one-sided conversational rule. Before the court was a motion to cite the $59,000,000 Edward G. Budd Manufacturing Co. for contempt of court...
...grind out novels in 1943. John P. Marquand published So Little Time ($2.75), a sad, bland tale of a polished but warm-hearted literary hack whose success cost him his self-respect. Upton Sinclair's Wide Is the Gate ($3), his 63rd book, carried his almost legendary Lanny Budd through the corrupt vicissitudes of Europe between wars. Sinclair Lewis' Gideon Planish ($2.50), a withering blast at phony philanthropists and do-gooders, awoke pale memories of Elmer Gantry. With The Forest and the Fort ($2.50), Anthony Adverse's Hervey Allen hewed out Vol. I of a projected...
...flyers in Britain related grim eyewitness accounts of the latest Nazi "secret weapon," the plane-fired rocket. During Oct. 14th's Fortress smash at the Schweinfurt ball-bearing works, Nazi fighters, armed with the new projectiles, soared to the attack in "layers" of 60 planes each. Said Colonel Budd J. Peaslee, returned co-pilot of one of the Forts: "I saw plenty of rockets. I thought that none of us was going to get back...
Malcohn Bersohn (Biology), Robert Budd Betts, Harold Edwin Davenport, Jr. (Engineering Sciences), Herbert Gallant (Government), Joseph Daniel Grandine, 2d (Chemistry), Donald Harting (Biochemical Sciences), Gerald Austin Kerrigan (Sociology), David Lowenthal (History), James Carse Melrose (Chemistry...
Whaddyamean, "loser"? Bless your young reviewer's heart, the Lanny Budd series of novels is doing fine. They have won the praise of George Bernard Shaw, H. G. Wells, Lion Feuchtwanger, Emil Ludwig and Thomas Mann, to mention only a few foreigners who have been moved to write letters. Since money talks, in the TIME office as elsewhere, I will mention that the first three volumes have done very well for their author, and that Wide Is the Gate is listed as number five best-seller in the last week's New York Times...