Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...psychologists and fewer psychiatrists could see any possible good in dianetics, the bestselling so-called "science of mind" concocted by science-fiction Writer L. Ron Hubbard (TIME, July 24). But no group, it seemed, wanted to be the first to denounce it publicly. Last week, the American Psychological Association decided that somebody had to do something...
...show opens with a child actor wishing he could be some character in fact or fiction. No sooner said than done: with Mr. L's "magic" intervention he becomes Abraham Lincoln or Christopher Columbus, Hercules or the Count of Monte Cristo. To make these transformations, Tripp employs the simplest form of theater. Aided only by his wife, Ruth Enders, and two other permanent cast members, he has staged convincing battles between armies of Crusaders and Saracens, as well as AH Baba's capture of the Forty Thieves. Out of some toy boats floating in a washtub he created...
Died. William Olaf Stapledon, 64 Egypt-born British philosopher (A Modern Theory of Ethics) and fiction writer (such early-Wellsian fantasies as Last and First Men, Odd John, Sinus); of a coronary occlusion; in Cheshire, England. A longtime one-worlder, Stapledon achieved a measure of distinction in March 1949 as the only British delegate at the Communist-backed Cultural and Scientific Conference for World Peace* in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria...
Like many another editor who long leaned heavily on fiction, Wiese knows that fiction no longer has the old pull; readers want more & more lively nonfiction, topical articles, picture spreads and stories. So he gave Mich the job of supplying them. An old newshand, Dan Mich should have no trouble filling the bill. He quit the University of Wisconsin in 1923 in his sophomore year to become sport editor of Madison's Wisconsin State Journal (circ. 76,206), was managing editor at 28. In 1937, Gardner ("Mike") Cowles lured him to Des Moines to help run his fledgling Look...
Given Glen (Houghton Mifflin; $3-75) is a massive and hard-to-swallow pill by that usually deft practitioner of slickmagazine fiction, Ben Ames Williams. For 629 pages, it rambles pointlessly on about Owen Glen's childhood in the 'gos, the daily minutiae of a mining town with its labor troubles and civic problems, endless excerpts from its banal little newspaper. Novelist Williams, who has done considerably better in his day (Come Spring) and has almost never descended to boredom, seems almost determined to write a boring story. His success is complete...