Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back to fiery Evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who founded the press in 1894. In The Prodigal, copyright 1898, Moody himself delivers a brisk little homily on the perils of cigars, whisky and wild women. More up-to-the-minute, A Visit to Mars is mildly in the modern science-fiction vein. The Martians, it turns out, are not only supermen but super-Christians, who have attained a state of grace. The only graceless, earthian thing about them is their dialogue. Sample; "Our church is over the brow of yonder eminence...
...Distant Shore, especially in its second half, is definitely outclassed by the destroyer-escorts and transports whose course it will cross in the fiction lists. But Author De Hartog's prose is polished, and he knows how to tell a tale of men and ships...
From the Swedish press last week came clear evidence that Swedes are too easily impressed by the hard-boiled school of American detective fiction. Reporting on Tourist Margaret Truman's visit to Stockholm, Swedish newspapermen gave the impression that the President's daughter was being escorted around Europe by Sam Spade and Mike Hammer...
...November 1949, William Porter, former newspaper reporter and successful fiction writer on leave from his post as assistant professor of journalism at State University of Iowa, came to TIME'S personnel department in New York and asked for a job. Any kind of job would do, he said, even that of office boy. All Porter wanted was a chance to watch the operation of a newsmagazine in order to round out his own journalistic experience...
...closer to the allegorical Frau ohne Schatten or Die Aegyptische Helena of the composer's later years, and it sometimes made unreasonable vocal and emotional demands on the singers. Its story, a retelling of how Jupiter wooed the nymph Danae, was a hodgepodge of myth and fiction...