Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Call Northside 777. James Stewart heads an expert cast in a good, hard piece of fact-fiction about journalism and justice in Chicago (TIME...
...affair with a tough little Eurasian named Thelma Morrison-one of those clinical matings, ruthlessly antiromantic, which seem to be a feature of contemporary fiction, whether laid in Bombay or Westchester. His sister goes to jail in a riot, his friend Salim is assassinated and he himself attacked in ambush. His project for an airline transporting pilgrims comes to nothing (the pilgrims get airsick) and he settles down to a job as a commercial airlines pilot...
Movies these days are apparently gravitating toward non-fiction. At any rate, almost on top of the recent "Call Northside 777" comes another documentary film, taken bodily from the files of the U.S. Narcotics Bureau. What is more, it carries through it a Moral Principle, hidden by the plot, to be sure, as cleverly as the smuggled opium is hidden from Customs, but which still serves to elevate the movie above the level of common melodrama...
...Easter Rabbit," by Robert K. Bingham, is the most finished and interesting piece of fiction in the magazine. An introspective young man buys a live rabbit and gives it to his mistress, but the forgets that she has a large dog in the house. The relationship of the two animals symbolizes the doubt and fear in the man's mind, and the story becomes at times terrifying by placing brutality in the limited world of the animals...
This evening's forum has stirred up much interest in the publishing trade, as it will be one of the first times a future, in, magazine or fiction publishing has been discussed at Harvard. The meeting is the seventh in the Placement Office's current job series...