Word: dipso
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Author Baldwin has tackled a compelling theme, but the bestselling writing habits of a lifetime will not down. In a few final, banal pages, Paul becomes a mature man, a whole minister, and gets his girl besides (Alcoholics Anonymous has straightened out his dipso brother). In a foreword, Author Baldwin hopes that at least "one reader" will experience "pleasure in reading Paul's story." On the record (some 10,000,000 sales of her novels in all editions), she can't miss...
Novelist Halliday knew the risk he would run. At 43, a diabetic and a dipso-gone-dry, he was childishly dependent on his mistress to keep him on the wagon and at work on the novel he had been trying to write for several years. Since he dared not run the lesser risk of offending Producer Milgrim, Manley Halliday did as he was told...