Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...business, an expert in the sentimental, tough-guy school of prose, horn-rimmed Jack Lait has inherited Mark Bellinger's crown as king of the hacks. He figures that he has pounded out 1,500 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...
...found in ransacking the closets of the 19205-the era of the flapper and the grimacing mobster, the devotees of sex dives and bathtub gin, the frilly esthetes and champions of companionate marriage. William Hodapp has pasted together, with some success, an anthology reflecting the era through its fiction. The stories provide dramatic evidence of how drastically and quickly the patterns of U.S. life can change during a lifetime...
Roll Back the Sea is a hard-working attempt to make fiction of their achievement. Its author, A. Den Doolaard (real name, Cornelus Spoelstra) is a 47-year-old Dutch journalist, author of Express to the East (TIME, Nov. 18, 1935), who "meddled in underground work," escaped to England and became chief of the Dutch government's broadcasts. After the liberation of Holland he was posted on Walcheren as liaison officer between the Dutch department of dike repairs and the Royal Engineers...
After 21 months of marriage (her second, his sixth), brunette Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor told the judge about life with her clarinet-tooting husband, Artie Shaw. In the tabloids, it all sounded like a souped-up version of her own Restoration fiction, in modern dress. In 31 pages of searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner...
Marriage Revealed. Louis Untermeyer, 62, perennial poetaster and anthologist, now editorial consultant for Decca Records; and Bryna Ivens, 39, fiction editor of Seventeen magazine; he for the fourth time, she for the second; near Cuernavaca, Mexico...