Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...legitimate" pretender, Henri d'Orleans, Comte de Paris, was less fortunate. Moustached Henri, who looks as all French counts should in fiction and many French garage mechanics do in fact, is the great-great-grandson of King Louis Philippe. As the Bourbon-Orleéans* pretender to the throne, Henri has spent most of his 41 years hovering in expectant exile just outside the boundaries of France. In 1931 he married Isabelle d'Orleéans-Bragance, the doe-eyed, lovely daughter of a pretender to the throne of Brazil. Fearing that the line might become extinct, Henri...
Selling the ranch, Boyd put everything he owned into buying up all possible rights to Hopalong Cassidy. After repeated round trips to Fryeburg, Me., he drew up a contract with Author Clarence Mulford, whose original pulp-fiction Hoppy-unlike the softspoken, clean-living movie version-was a cussing, ungrammatical, hard-drinking ranch hand with a game...
Psychologists, busier than most at delving for the hidden meaning, suspect that movies, like other forms of fiction, are ready-made daydreams. Consciously and unconsciously the movies reflect, say the psychologists, the deep-rooted feelings of the national culture in which they are made. Last week movie fans could examine the results of an ambitious attempt by two psychologists to probe the celluloid daydreams of the U.S., Britain and France. Americans were not likely to find the results flattering...
Since the war, French fiction has been obsessed with the theme of the Resistance movement. Usually it portrays the movement with the moralistic, black & white simplicity of Zane Grey on the subject of cowboys and rustlers. In dealing with the theme in The Barkeep of Blémont, French Novelist Marcel Aymé has granted it some of the complexity it possesses. Because he has gone beyond mere slogans and asked himself how people actually felt and behaved immediately following France's Liberation, his novel shines with quiet credibility...
...comes it is as unexpected and as nearly incredible to the reader as it was to the boy. The boy, however, is a bright little minnow, dragged flopping and flashing out of a dark pool of childhood, one of the most vivid children of the year's fiction...