Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...story is handled with fine ease, and the characters talk with a naturalness that is not at all common in current fiction. What A Pride of Lions sadly lacks is suspense, exactly what Marquand uses to give urgency to situations no more exciting than the one Brooks starts with. Whether or not the elder Osborne succeeds in keeping a big oil company from industrializing sleepy old East Bank never gets to be of any real interest. And Tom's love affair with a girl who at first doesn't understand East Bankers is pallid to the point...
...illness; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Editor Lait doubled the Mirror's circulation, with Nightclub Columnist Lee Mortimer turned out four controversial "Confidential" guides to U.S. scandal and vice. Asked how he kept up his prodigious writing output (8 plays, 20 books, 1,500 short stories), Author Lait rasped: "Fiction is a cinch. I just set the screw in my head for 2,800 words, and out it comes. Not only do I not rewrite, I don't read...
Houghton Mifflin fellowships which are given once or twice a year to authors of significant manuscripts in fiction or non-fiction, involve an award of $2,400, half of which is a grant and half an advance against royalties...
Militarily, the fiction of "sovereignty" enabled the East German Communists to remove the fancy Potsdam wrappings from the 600 tanks, 2,000 guns and almost 200,000 men that comprise the "People's Police." (About one in three of the Red "policemen" has deserted or has been purged since the June 17 riots, according to West German sources.) Last week, for the first time, the Communists called the so-called police by their proper name: the East German Streitkrafte (fighting forces). Diplomatically, the Kremlin hoped for even greater gains. A "sovereign" East Germany could plausibly be a step toward...
...years ago, he borrowed $3,000 and bought Cheyenne's sickly weekly, the Wyoming Eagle. He converted it into a daily, made it the area's first tabloid and began giving it away free. But later only paid subscribers got a special section of features (comics, serial fiction, etc.). By starting new features first in the free section of the paper, then moving them to the supplement for paid subscribers, he got more and more paid subscribers, finally stopped giving the paper away altogether. The plan worked so well that eleven years after he started, McCraken...