Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BYLINE: ERNEST HEMINGWAY edited by William White. 489 pages. Scribners...
...Ernest Hemingway is becoming the publishing business' posthumous answer to cottage industry. Three years after his suicide, A Moveable Feast arrived, literary leftovers served up by his widow, Mary. Now, after another three years, comes this 77-piece assembly of Papa's journalism, newspaper and magazine pieces edited by William White, professor of journalism at Wayne State University...
Although By-Line: Ernest Hemingway is really source material for Hemingway biographers and thesis hunters in the Eng. Lit. factories, the book does have intrinsic value for nonacademic readers. Hemingway told good yarns. His fishing and hunting stories made sea and forest seem God's heaven. And he had wise words for would-be writers: "Real seriousness in regard to writing is one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent." But always the book's main interest is the author. It traces the rise, the peaking out and the decline of Ernest Hemingway as stylist...
...seek public capital. They voted to ante up $40 million more themselves. Eventually Solvay partners will reap a four-for-one stock split, and since not all of the new shares will be fully negotiable, the family will remain the biggest shareholder in the chemical complex that grew from Ernest Solvay's 106-year-old process for making chemical soda into a company with 30 plants in twelve nations on three continents...
...scholar, pressagent, long-range planner, public speaker, banqueteer with a cast-iron digestion. Another problem is that few schools like the idea of a built-in successor. If an outgoing president tries to groom an up-and-coming administrator as a potential heir apparent, says Stanford Graduate Business Dean Ernest Arbuckle, "that can be the kiss of death." Many otherwise qualified professors consider an administrative job as "going over to the enemy"-and claim that they can make more money staying where they are. Because they generally lack the right scholarly credentials, corporation executives are usually shunned by powerful faculty...