Word: burnette
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...BRAIN PICKERS (319 pp.)-Hallie Burnett-Messner...
...novel the whole publishing world is buzzing about! . . . Exposes the commercial snake pit of the book world where power-hungry men and love-hungry women struggle for survival and fulfillment." So say the ads. Actually, The Brain Pickers is a shoddy novel by Hallie Burnett, wife of Author Whit Burnett, that reveals very little about the publishing business, although it may start a sort of human Tangle Towns contest as to the possible identity of its leading, characters...
...Author Burnett rigs out her scene with a few publishers' parties, but her ear is not very sensitive to what goes on at such shindigs. Nothing The Brain Pickers says about the U.S. publishing business is as damaging to it as the fact that this book found a publisher...
...future. Instead of a birthday party, Walt Disney produced an hour-long trailer for Disneyland, the Mickey Mouse Club, and other Disney holdings including Zorro, a new film series full of the strangulated clichés of derring-do, and a six-part series called The Saga of Andy Burnett, featuring the standard heroes-errant of the frontier. Cartoon Impresario Disney was trundled about from one plug to another by his Mousketeers, who wound up the big sales convention with a tasteless routine on top of a giant birthday cake, plugging a movie called Rainbow Road to Oz. Peter...
...Also last week he learned that he was the object of a nightclub torch song called I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Singer: pert Texas Redhead Carol Burnett, 24, at Manhattan's Blue Angel. Sample lyrics (by Ken Welch...