Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing in the New York Times this week, the Atlanta Constitution's Editor Ralph McGill declared that the Dixiecrats' victory over Harry Truman had "at least done away with their earlier fiction that they were really the Democratic Party...
...changed. Oscar Dystel, new managing editor, brought in a new art director, Tony Palazzo, from Coronet; a new men's fashion editor, Bert Bacharach; and a women's fashion editor, Mrs. Taube Coller Davis ("Tobe"), who runs a style advisory service for retailers. To pep up its fiction, Collier's now awards a $1,000 bonus to the author of each issue's "star story...
...Loves of Carmen (Columbia] gives red-haired Rita Hayworth a chance to play one of fiction's most durable hussies. To give Rita's millions of fans their money's worth, Columbia has spared nothing, not even the horses: the movie has splashy Technicolor, spicy love scenes, a talented cast, lavish sets, a stagecoach robbery, plain & fancy violence. It is only a well-dressed western with gypsy trimmings, but it is entertaining in an oldfashioned, simple-minded...
...Lanny Budd novels. Nothing is easier-sometimes it seems that they are filled with nothing but improbabilities and inconsistencies, with no subtler characterizations than those of a good comic strip. Yet reading the entire 6,237 pages gives the disquieting impression that the trouble with Sinclair's fiction is not that it is improbable, but that too much of it is all too literally true. Nothing in the account of Lanny's dealing with Roosevelt, for example, quite comes up to the adventures of Harry Hopkins in the White House and in Europe; and if Roosevelt...
...wrote in a mode of grotesque comedy rarely found in recent American fiction. With the irresponsible zest of a primitive jokester, he reveled in the high jinks of such moronic subhumans as Jeeter Lester and Darling Jill, whom he twisted into creatures of ribald fantasy far removed from everyday human character...