Word: famous
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...Schlesinger shared her husband's interest in American social history and has published articles on famous American women in The New Republic and American Heritage...
...more than 300" (he soon lost count) novels and novelettes, and once actually splattered off a quite readable novel in 25 hours. At 25, he dropped his 17 pseudonyms, invented Inspector Maigret, and wrote the first of "more than 60" detective novels that have made him the most famous of French whodunists. In his 30s he began to write an occasional straight novel (The Snow Is Black, The Bells of Bicêtre), and he wrote them with such fierce finesse that André Gide pronounced him "perhaps the greatest and most truly novelistic novelist in French literature today...
...this much has been written elsewhere. Charles Sims is already famous in the South, the black man who won't turn the other cheek. He preaches, instead, the art of self-defense...
Sims is the spokesman for the Deacons for Defense and Justice, an armed Negro police organization that is spreading across the rural South and into Northern cities. He reigns over the most famous of the Deacon chapters, in Bogalusa, La., and his exploits there prompted Jet magazine to label him "The man most feared by whites in Louisiana...
...weren't for the snarl, Sims and the Deacons would not be famous today. It's the gangland reputation, the toothless sneer, that have won the man and his organization front-page coverage in newspapers across the country. As long as Sims maintains the mystique, the American press will do his proselytizing and fund-raising for him. Sims estimates that there are now 50 to 60 Deacon chapters in existence, and it's a cinch that most of these were inspired by newspaper accounts alone. Sims told me, "I don't really like publicity. I'd never talk...