Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Destination Moon (George Pal; Eagle Lion Classics) proves that, in Hollywood, the sky's no longer the limit. The picture speculates entertainingly in Technicolor on what may happen when man takes his first 240,000-mile flight by rocket to the moon. For a piece of science fiction, it has a surprising amount of respect for scientific fact...
...Liberty magazine one morning last week, veteran Fiction Editor Elsie Christie dropped in to Editor John Danby's office to regale him with a rumor she had just heard: Liberty (circ. 1,096,987) was being sold to "one of those awful girlie books." Recalled Danby: "We both agreed that that was the most unlikely thing in the world." Two days later, Publisher Osborne Bond called in Editor Danby, Miss Christie and most of his 40 other staffers and fired them. Reason: Liberty was closing down. Liberty's name and good will had been sold to Lawrence Holmes...
...Alger Hiss. By doing some leg work on the famed "tragedy of history" that caught up Hiss and Whittaker Chambers, Reporters Lasky and De Toledano have dug up some highly readable material on the early lives of both men and put together one of the spring's non-fiction bestsellers. (Chambers willingly cooperated, but one of Hiss's lawyers told Lasky and De Toledano that he could not expose his client to "red-baiters.") Frankly sympathetic to Chambers, the book gives an orderly and credible, if hurried, account of the story behind the mass of testimony on which...
...week, 30 years and four weddings later, Untermeyer walked into a Manhattan courthouse in the forlorn hope of finding out which chains legally bound. Onetime Judge Esther Antin, 50, the fourth Mrs. Untermeyer,* had asked the court to declare her his legal wife. Now living with Wife No. 5, Fiction Editor (Seventeen) Bryna Ivens, 40, Untermeyer took the position that he was still doubly-wed to No. 1 (and No. 3), Jean Starr, since his Mexican divorce from her didn't really count. (Presumably, marriage and divorce with Poetess Virginia Moore, 46, wife No. 2, was legal.) Untermeyer readily...
...truth is that Mrs. Geysel has become a lot too good to be true during her metamorphosis into The Legacy's heroine, Jean Paget. Jean is a wonderful girl, but she never existed outside a glossy-paper fiction magazine with a woman's angle. While she is in the Japanese bag, an Australian saves her from death. For years she thinks he has died in her place, but after the war, having inherited a sizable legacy, she hears he is alive. Jean goes out to Australia and gets her man. Any ordinary girl would have settled down...