Word: fictioneering
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best of our knowledge." Ross states, "there is today no non-partisan, non-religious intercollegiate journal devoted to the best student output in the way of articles, fiction, verse, reviews which seem sufficient reason to start...
Editor-in-chief of the Woman's Home Companion for 29 years, she edited it from a circulation of 737,764 to 3,607,974. That increase was only partly due to her buying the high-priced fiction of Kathleen Norris, Edna Ferber, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, and other favorites of the weaker sex, paying $25,000 for the unpublished letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett, hiring Eleanor Roosevelt to edit a forum department in the Companion called "Mrs. Roosevelt's Page." (Gertrude Lane was a lifelong Republican.) She was as shrewd an editor as she was hardworking...
...others-and he flew to London to tell Winston Churchill that France would see it through. Weygand refused to shake hands with him when he returned. When Reynaud lost heart and resigned in favor of Pétain, De Gaulle flew to London for keeps. There is more than fiction to the legend told about him to Negroes in Cameroun...
...poet, a critic, a tireless student of short fiction who never wrote a short story himself, O'Brien died in February, aged 50, at his home in Buckinghamshire, England. Thus The Best Short Stories, 1941 is his last anthology. The series will continue under the editorship of Martha Foley, co-editor (with Husband Whit Burnett) of Story, which was long a favorite hunting ground of O'Brien's for new writers and new ideas of short story technique...
EXCEPT for a group of three short poems by Marvin Barrett and the usual reviews (of which Frederick Jacobi's musical criticism is to be praised), the new Advocate consists entirely of fiction. The scope of the whole is narrow, but the variety of the fiction is great. This has not always been true: too often the Advocate has reflected a single and special set of interests and tastes...