Word: craig
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sirs: Who is your prodigiously presumptuous reader [TIME Letters, Feb. 18] so unlettered that he reports he was bored by your fine story on Craig Rice's important place in a highly significant field of letters? I suggest he read Having Wonderful Crime and then tell us honestly if he is still bored. I doubt that Craig Rice ever bored anybody. When we were both practically flunking a "journalism" course at San Diego State College, I can guarantee it was not because she was dull. In fact, I view with alarm your report that...
...state that Craig Rice never writes short stories for magazines and that no popular magazine would touch them if she did, because of the amount of liquor involved. In our March 1943 issue we ran a story by Craig Rice . . . which featured that hard-drinking little criminal lawyer, John J. Malone, whom readers of Craig Rice's books will remember as Jake Justus' boon and bar companion. In other words, he is no teetotaler at any time...
...Miss Craig Rice (Mrs. Lawrence Lipton) has authorized me by long-distance telephone from her home in Santa Monica to deny the statement in your issue of Jan. 28 that she receives $6,750 if a Craig Rice book sells 500,000 copies in a 25? reprint edition on the newsstands...
...today, takes 50% of all authors' reprint royalties. And, of course, I pay 10% to my agent, thereby netting 40% for myself." Miss Lee Wright, editor of Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Miss Rice's first-edition publishers, confirmed this emphatically over the telephone tonight. "Craig has just the same sort of contract as any other writer," said Miss Wright. "We take 50% of her reprint royalties...
...Craig' Rice, and who cares who Craig Rice is? I have never read anything quite so boring, uninteresting, and so strictly beside the point in any copy of TIME...