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GREAT SON-Edna Ferber-Doubleday, Doran...
...Edna Ferber once remarked, "writing a novel is like plodding along a dirt road ankle deep in mud," she is easily one of the world's most determined plodders. So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, American Beauty, Come and Get It and Saratoga Trunk have established her as a writer who is apparently unable to produce either a disappointing or a startling book. Great Son, though less strongly plotted than its predecessors, is the dependable Ferber brand of slickly written, cinemadaptable Americana...
...Author. At 57, Edna Ferber is white-haired, handsome and still single. She attributes her fabulous success to the fact that "I write about fundamental things-love, marriage, hardship, vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book...
...Facilities for disabled are listed in another book, out this week: Normal Lives for the Disabled (Macmillan, $2.50) by Edna Yost in collaboration with Dr. Lillian Moller Gilbreth who, with her husband, late Dr. Frank B. Gilbreth, developed many industrial jobs for handicapped men after World War I. * For those who need it, the Institute offers job training. There are over 2,000 kinds of jobs that handicapped people can fill, 275 of them for people with arm injuries. The value of such people to industry is beginning to be appreciated (TIME, June...
Down in one department the Hon. Mr. Beckham stood over worker No. 357-908 watching her as she went about her rubbery task. As he rubber-necked, worker No. 356-667 called across two across of assembly line in her sweet little voice, "Hey, Edna, stop drooling...