Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rose really bloomed. His name became as current in Broadway beaneries as stale bagels. To keep up the chatter, Billy hired Pressagent Maney. In the next seven years, Maney forced the growth of the real Rose with a rich and soggy compost of legends, half-truths and downright fiction. But Maney also spread Billy's fame as a "Bantam Barnum," "Mighty Midget" and "Basement Belasco...
...Brooklyn) Smith, and got encouragement in her writing from their mother. The Weather of the Heart has its faults, mostly structural and obviously resulting from lack of experience. They will be forgiven easily by readers whose weary eyes have lately seen a lot of old formulas passing as new fiction...
...many respects, Lanny resembles an even more popular character in modern fiction: Superman. He excels in doing the impossible, and he is impossible as a human being. Bailing out of a reconnaissance plane over German-held Africa, he chews up his U.S. credentials, rides a camel, eventually walks straight into Hitler's den. "Will you tell me where you have been for the past two years, Herr Budd?" barks the Fiihrer. Lanny offers so neat an explanation that Hitler, in return, offers him an autographed pass to tour the Reich as he will. Lanny makes his tour, then flies...
Subtitled "A Fictitious Reminiscence," the book obviously is not all fiction. Europeans will easily recognize Dario as the high-ranking Fascist journalist, Curzio Malaparte, and so will U.S. readers of Malaparte's curious autobiography Kaputt (TIME, Nov. 11). As the profile of a likable opportunist, the novel is convincing, but as a study in the dialectics of Fascism it probes no deeper than the good manners...
...Equality under segregated system is a legal fiction and a judicial myth," replied Attorney Marshall. Dean Charles Thompson of Howard University testified that Texas last year spent $2.01 per capita for white higher education, only 44? for Negoes. The University of Chicago's Anthropologist Robert Redfield testified that Negroes and whites do not differ significantly in intellectual ability...