Word: fictionalizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Manhattan, Actor-Radio Commentator Robert Montgomery petitioned the court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of Gambler Frank Costello, charging he had obtained it fraudulently. "A cheap hammy stunt for publicity," Costello retorted. "The claims of my vast wealth and income are pure fiction. I am a man . . . with a modest income, and I live conservatively but comfortably...
...time he was 24, Australian-born James Aldridge had written about World War II from seven fronts, picked up three wounds and was a big-name correspondent. He had also written a novel, Signed with Their Honor (TIME, Oct. 5, 1942), which was clumsy fiction and embarrassingly indebted to Hemingway, but good reporting about war in the air. His second novel, The Sea Eagle, made it plain that not even the most studious aping of Hemingway was enough to make a novelist out of a newspaperman. With The Diplomat, it should by now be obvious even to his publishers that...
...Williams has also respected his literary bent: he has written more than 20 volumes of poetry, fiction and history, all in his "spare" time. His fellow doctors ''used to think I was a little cracked, but they've learned to tolerate me." He admits that his patients often have trouble when they try to read Poet Williams. Says a patient in one scrap of Williams' poems: "Geeze, Doc, I guess it's all right but what the hell does it mean...
...patrol as "They Cheat Death in the Alps," sweat as a motorcycle daredevil shows "How to Ride Up a Wall," cheer for the Old Blue bullfighter in "Yale Man Versus Toro," and squeeze the trigger when "Grizzlies Spell Trouble." The biggest difference between the two: Argosy runs fiction, True aims at facts...
...died, but in his lifetime he had seen too much of the super-humbug of totalitarianism to be complacent about it. No writer had done more to shatter the complacency of others. As George Orwell, the name he long intended to legalize, he had written a dozen books, fiction and nonfiction. Only six have been published in the U.S., but all of them, whatever their shortcomings, are distinguished by a forthrightness of mind and a limber, cutting style that are singularly Orwellian, unmistakably original...