Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great Caruso (M-G-M), a quasi-biography of the late great tenor, is weak on facts and weaker as fiction, but as a well-recorded pops concert featuring the impressive voice of Mario Lanza (TIME, March 19), it is a tidy package of entertainment that music lovers can enjoy with their eyes shut...
...Best fiction: Conrad Richter, for his novel, The Town...
...sharpest possible picture of Dublin bursting its buttons, its streets crisscrossed with an interweaving mob of poets, patriots, drunks, floozies, looters and sharpshooters. The result is not a great novel, nor even a very remarkable one, but it does suggest that the "Troubles" may go marching along in fiction as indomitably as the American Civil...
Late in March the group announced its plans to publish a first issue shortly after spring vacation. The original incentive to put out a magazine of fiction captures to "a wide, but select audience" remains unchanged...
Like the others,* Better Living's 96-page first issue is full of how-to-do-its (freeze strawberries, rewire lamps, earn money at home, arrange flowers, etc.), and the kind of clinical fiction housewives seem to love. The leading story is a cheerful piece on a day in the life of an obstetrician, by Old Standby Faith Baldwin. Sample quote: "If she proved to have a generally contracted pelvis, the measurements and the X ray would chart his course of action-a low Caesarean section, he hoped." Concludes the doctor at day's end: "What a wonderful...