Word: coauthors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last fortnight to honor the memory of their favorite detective, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes. The occasion was the publication of three new books about Holmes.* The publishers jointly sponsored the dinner. The guests were a Who's Who of crime fictioneers, included Frederic Dannay (coauthor, with Manfred Lee, of the "Ellery Queen" crime series), bearded Rex Stout (creator of orchidophilous Nero Wolfe), Christopher Morley (author of the theory that Sherlock Holmes was an American). Critic Clifton (Information Please) Fadiman, and General Motors Executive Edgar W. Smith, world's No. 1 nonliterary Sherlock Holmes enthusiast...
...Churchill buried the Atlantic Charter. Since the President, coauthor, has not taken issue . . . we may take it the abandonment of the Charter is established policy...
...odds on "the question of whether the economic destiny of the country is to be settled by executive directives or by . . . the elected representatives of the people." Grimly he added that his bill to make Congress the postwar boss would be introduced early this week. The bill's coauthor, 100% New Dealer James Murray of Montana, merely mumbled something about "Mr. Baruch's admirable report" and "the need for broad legislative action by the Congress...
...national committee member and prospective national convention delegate will go a 68-page booklet entitled America's Road to Lasting Peace. The booklet's frontispiece is a full-page photograph of its author, Ohio's Senator Harold Hitz Burton, 56, able three-time mayor of Cleveland, coauthor of the famed Ball-Burton-Hatch-Hill Senate Resolution for international organization...
...solution: a one-man U.S. gag factory established in London to turn out material for touring entertainers. The man chosen was serious, curly-haired, stocky Hal Block-who resembles Actor Edward G. Robinson. A University of Chicago graduate (1934), he was a scriptwriter for Burns & Allen and coauthor of Olsen & Johnson's Sons o' Fun. U.S.O. installed Block at BBC, which pays him a fraction of his previous earnings...