Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Orchids for Miss Blandish (Renown), made in England, purports to be a movie about U.S. gangsters. Adapted from a claptrap novel by Britain's James Hadley Chase (real name: Rene Raymond), who once confessed cribbing from U.S. hard-boiled fiction, the picture outraged London (TIME, May 10, 1948). Censors howled that it was brutal, sadistic, sensual; critics slammed it as "a piece of nauseating muck...
...Bang, Blue Eyes. Ride Home Tomorrow supplies all this, as well as other ingredients essential to popular historical fiction. Hero Andres Vaeringer is a handsome, upstanding fellow with a vast curiosity about the world. Born & bred in Norway, he quarrels with his crusty stepfather and flees to England-just in time to run slap into Robin Hood and his merry men and get himself captured by that fine old favorite, the Sheriff of Nottingham. Saved from the scaffold by a pious knight, Andres gets shipped off to the Holy Land, where the air is so thick with plots and subterfuge...
Magazine serial writers make the most money, DeVoto said, while writers of non-fiction articles require the most skill...
Tales of the Uncanny and Supernatural, by Algernon Blackwood. Selected stories by one of fiction's most famous commuters to the Great Beyond (TIME...
White House. Bess and Harry Truman have done their best to preserve the pleasant fiction. But the fact remains that the American public takes a deep, proprietary interest in anyone who lives rent-free at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...