Word: fictional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the land last week, with a fresh urgency born of war's end in Europe, young educators were seeing visions, old educators dreaming dreams. If all of them should come true, the following fiction would become fact: On his first day at school, 5-year-old Peter Mathews was annoyed by the nice lady who asked him strange questions and made him put blocks in holes. After the lady decided which group he belonged in, things began to seem better. On the second day, a Mickey Mouse cartoon telling how to pronounce the alphabet, a play session with...
...Clock is a pleasant, well-told romance rather than the great, true picture it might have been; but few films in recent years have managed so movingly to combine first-grade truth with second-grade fiction...
Earlier, in his spare time, he had written fiction (mostly about crooked politicians), and also, under a nom de plume (A. V. Hendrick), the words for a song honoring Movie Queen Bebe Daniels (Bebe, Bebe, Bebe, Be Mine), whose father lived in Grand Rapids. Now he turned to sterner stuff. Alexander Hamilton had long been his hero; he wrote three books about him. (Lodge had also written a biography of Hamilton.) The books are largely forgotten, and Senator Vandenberg is glad they are. But the inscription in one is a characteristic example of how faithfully Vandenberg represented, as he still...
Like the medieval werewolves that still roam through horror fiction, the Nazi Werewolves are partial to human flesh. "Brave as lions and cunning as serpents," they are a secret group of avenging terrorists, pledged to destroy both Allied invaders and German "traitors." Already they have assassinated the Allied-appointed Mayors of Aachen and Meschede (TIME, April 9) and killed three U.S. officers in Frankfurt...
Sergeant Nelson of the Guards is part fact, part fiction; part Coldstream history, part Coldstream rag-chewing. It is also the most blood-&-thunder, swashbuckling, superpatriotic book of World War II; an American equivalent might be a history of the U.S. Marine Corps written by General George S. Patton Jr., Margaret Mitchell and Fred Allen. Gerald Kersh's Coldstreamers think they are a match for anything on earth in toughness, discipline and homespun philosophy. Author Kersh thinks...