Word: deathly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Double Trouble. Almost three times as many people (150) were killed in crashes of domestic scheduled airlines in the first six months this year, said CAB, as in the first half of 1946. More planes are flying this year, so the death rate per miles flown was not up as much. Yet at 5.8 per 100,000,000 passenger miles, the rate was still more than double last year...
Crossfire (RKO Radio). In Richard Brooks's wartime novel, The Brick Foxhole, some U.S. soldiers got drunk on a civilian's liquor, suspected him of being a homosexual, and beat him to death. RKO has changed the civilian (well played by Sam Levene) into a Jew, and Crossfire emerges first in the field in Hollywood's anti-anti-Semitic sweepstakes...
Nick of Time. In Point Pleasant, W.Va., despondent Victor Bradshaw tried to stab himself to death, got the knife part way in, fell down dead of a heart attack...
Said Katherine Anne Porter: "The Hemingway 'school' has run its course. Renunciation of moral ideas, belief in violence and love and fear of death can only go so far. [Serious writers] are overwhelmed by the magnitude of the disaster which has taken place, to a point where it seems the individual voice doesn't matter. So many write small novels of bewildered souls trying to figure their way out. The trouble with proletarian novels is that they're written from the outside looking in. And what Freud has done! Those little case histories. Freud...
...Columnist F.P.A. thought he saw an omen in Harry Truman's nostalgia for the Senate. "Lord!" wrote Adams. "After J. Q. Adams had been President he became a representative from Massachusetts." For omen-sighters there was a better precedent. Like Harry Truman, Andrew Johnson was a Senator before death made him President; six years after he left the White House he was again elected a Senator (from Tennessee...