Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...locales and fresh faces. People are tired of straight dramatic actors trying to be comedians, and sick of the same old tired stars playing youngsters half their ages. Color is a star on the marquee; the public loves it. It wants pictures that move, not talk. It wants science fiction. But it also wants pictures about people who are not afraid to say they believe in God, because people want to believe in God themselves these days. It doesn't, however, want dull pictures about religious themes. One more picture like The Next Voice You Hear, and even...
...foreign-aid program. They still have to get out a bill on the program. A number of McMahon's colleagues indicated a singular lack of interest. This is unfortunate, since McMahon's dragon will just be left out in the tall grass, there to flourish on fiction, undisturbed by fact...
Other popular items include all science fiction magazines (Galaxy loads here) and racing publications (Armstrong's is the first choice of Harvard men). All the news weeklies sell very well, with "Time" overwhelmingly tops. Sales of sport magazines, crossword puzzle books, and "little magazines" are only fair...
...likes to tell about the days when he and Joe Louis were growing up together in Detroit's brawling "Black Bottom" district. Whenever Joe was in the gym," says Robinson, "so was I. He was my idol, and still is." That memory is a convenient bit of fiction that his mother, Mrs. Leila Smith, dispels with a single word: "Baloney." Actually, Robinson's story sticks a lot closer to the traditional boxer's mold-the hungry, ambitious kid who had to fight for survival from the day he was born plain Walker Smith...
...Contrary to common belief, Julius Caesar was born the normal way. The operation got its name because Roman law, which became Lex Caesare, required it to be performed as a last resort. Most noted Caesarean offspring in fact: Scipio Africanus. In fiction: Macduff...