Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...past jobs: U.S. public affairs officer in the Paris embassy, Look editor, OWI) has worked with such authors as Marcel Ayme, Alfred Hayes and John Cheever. Random House's Haydn (past jobs: editor of Crown and Bobbs-Merrill) edits The American Scholar, the Phi Beta Kappa journal, teaches fiction writing at the New School for Social Research. He wrote several novels, notably The Time Is Noon (1948), a panoramic view of American life that included some acid sidelights on the publishing business. In one scene, an ambitious junior editor is building up an awful novel to please...
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...Among the wild-blue-yonder possibilities: 1) observation of the Communist land mass from space satellites in the 1960s (see SCIENCE); 2) creation of anti-missile radiation belts-"death rays"-that might make sectors of sky impassable to missiles by the 1970s-1980s, much as they have in space fiction for years...
...FICTION...
...FICTION 1 . Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak ( 1 )* 2. Exodus, Uris (3) 3.Lolita, Nabokov (2) 4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 5. From the Terrace, O'Hara (5) 6. Lady L., Gary (7) 7. Around the World with Auntie Mame, Dennis (6) 8. Anatomy of a Murder, Traver (9) 9. The Watch That Ends the Night MacLennan 10. Tenderloin, Adams...