Word: ems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gets fewer orders. Her early work was framed in old mirror and picture frames that friends found for her in their attics. "But now they take them without frames. I don't like that. It's like sending my children out with ragged dresses on 'em. I like to see 'em dressed before they...
Minority Prophet. "R.C." is against unions (the Hoiles papers are all open shop), majority rule ("The majority can't give my consent to anything"), progressive, income taxes ("nothing but socialism"), public education ("a house of prostitution is voluntary, grade school is not") and aid to Europe ("Let 'em go to hell"). He considers both Herbert Hoover and Earl Warren too leftwing. Two things Publisher Hoiles is in favor of: child labor for the average, child ("Give him a pick & shovel and let him get started") and the black market. One touch of liberalism in the Hoiles record: during...
...short stories, besides 17 books, eight plays and millions of words of news. "Fiction," he rasps, "is a cinch, automatic. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes. Not only do I not rewrite, I don't read 'em...
...particular about how their songs get plugged. Whenever they can make it, they show up at the studio when a top singer first tries out a new one. Says Sammy: "They're damned careful to sing it the way we wrote it when we're staring 'em in the face. Lotsa singers don't know the proper phrasing and even lose a rhyme. So we gotta be around to protect our baby." Says Jule: "Nobody's going to improve our songs to death...
Give 'em what they understand; don't try to elevate them." Adds Jule: "You gotta write for the people . . . Art is great, sure . . . but who can sing Shostakovich...