Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...entered Columbia Law School, but decided after five months that the law was not for him. Before coming to TIME, he wrote reports for the Rand Corp. and Republic Aviation, read unsolicited fiction for The New Yorker...
...again when, in his presence. Abraham Lincoln worries about the Constitution and tells two stories of doubtful humor. Most of the speeches and conversations of the great sound authentic; only the hero, Montague-Sinclair, is unreal. He is, nevertheless, an engaging figure to the connoisseur of the absurd in fiction-a kind of Candide without Voltaire...
...Fiction, Fact, Fun. Thus bankrolled, CBC regards advertisers with what the U.S. networks would consider downright disdain. Instead of turning over its programing to packagers, CBC puts together its own schedule, then sells ads under the same conditions as newspapers and magazines, confining commercials to seven minutes an hour. It pipes in some U.S. network shows (Hallmark Hall of Fame, Ed Sullivan Show, River boat) that blend suitably with its schedule, selling the advertising time to Canadian firms. CBS produces almost all the rest of its shows, and with two exceptions-Ford Startime (half of its programs are imported, half...
Controlling their own show, Network Programing Director Eugene Hallman, 40, and TV Program Director Douglas Nixon, 44, aim for a magazine-like mixture of fiction, fact and fun. A typical evening's fare last week offered song (Perry Como Show) and adventure (R.C.M.P., a realistic serial on the Mounties, which cartoonists are fond of lampooning), but gave equal time to Live a Borrowed Life, a sprightly historical quiz, and Explorations, a well-filmed exposition of the odd migration habits of animals, birds and fish...
...FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) 2. Hawaii, Michener (5) 3. The War Lover, Hersey (6) 4. Poor No More, Ruark (2) 5. Exodus, Uris (4) 6. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (7) 7. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (8) 8. The Devil's Advocate, West (9) 9. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3) 10. Return to Peyton Place, Metalious...