Word: callaghan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...President, was six. Tanned and beaming after his cruise with the fleet, he went from the train that brought him from Charleston, S. C., to the White House to put on his cutaway. Then with his wife, mother, daughter-in-law Betsey (Mrs. Jimmy) and Naval Aide Dan J. Callaghan he went to his front-row pew in St. John's Church, where Rector Oliver J. Hart III conducted a special anniversary service and prayed...
...earlier work Morley Callaghan gave promise of being a sharply sensitive realist. Perhaps it is the haze of his native Toronto, perhaps it is only the gentling-down that many a prancing Pegasus goes through as it is broken to the book trade, but he seems now to be turning into a mystically misty romantic. Since undertones of the realistic approach remain, the result is, at times, confusing...
Among the authors represented are found such names in contemporary literature as William Faulkner, whose great book "Absalom, Absalom" provides him with an entree into the library of any literateur; Ernest Hemingway, whose recently published "To Have and Have Not" is arousing so much critical comment; Morley Callaghan; William Saroyan, one of the most outstanding of contemporary short story writers, Lovell Thompson, Benedict Thielen, and many others...
...includes as distinguished a selection of tales as he has ever edited. Notable this year more than in the past is a proportionate preponderance of young writers who have already made names for themselves. Sally Benson contributes a whimsical piece called "The Overcoat," and our friends Erskine Caldwell, Morley Callaghan, Paul Horgan, Allan Seager, William Saroyan and Thomas Wolfe all come in once apiece. None of this galaxy has written what this reviewer considers the piece de resistance of the collection, however, which is a story called "The Party Next Door" by Ernost Brace, first appearing in the magazine "Story...
THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH? Morley Callaghan?Random House ($2.50). Long, slow novel, written in Morley Callaghan's familiar and muffled prose, of the relationship of father...