Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pravda's No.1 hatchet man, David Zaslavsky, came out swinging savagely. He tried to pin on Atkinson the practice (Pravda's own practice, incidentally) of reckless and scurrilous fiction-mongering. He portrayed him as a "commercial traveler" for a typical capitalist newspaper enterprise, whose only job was to produce, by fabrication or distortion, the sort of news his bosses wanted to print...
...long on anecdote and short on big, dull facts.'Like Collier's Quentin Reynolds, Kyle Crichton and Jim Marshall, he is a swift, easy writer. He regards his promotion as more of the same formula that gets Collier's its 2,846,052 circulation: slight, slick fiction; articles serious in subject, light in treatment; the simple, direct editorials of Reuben Maury who (for a price) writes another kind for the late Joe Patterson's New York Daily News. Says Editor Davenport: "I intend to edit the magazine from a reporter's viewpoint. No ivory tower...
...publishers to withdraw the book if they saw fit-"it is so much against my wish to offend the tastes of the American public." Jude was Hardy's last (many now think it his best) novel. Its reception "completely cured" him, he said, of further interest in fiction. He turned back to verse, his original love, and wrote little else during his remaining 30-odd years...
...Victor Kravchenko suddenly quit his job with the Soviet Purchasing Commission in Washington, went into hiding, and began work on the most sensational of all recent books about the Soviet Union. In eight weeks it climbed to fifth on the non-fiction best-seller list. Reader's Digest condensed it; the Hearst papers have run it as a daily serial...
...Manhattan, W.N.U. executives said that the Florida weeklies would be guinea pigs in an experiment designed 1) to test reader reaction to W.N.U.'s 100-odd canned features (comics, news pictures, fiction, Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell, patterns, editorials, etc.); 2) to show U.S. country editors how to put out better, more profitable papers. But expansive John H. Perry said he had even bigger plans: a nationwide system of state newspaper chains...