Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinions as he does his own, heard the President out in silence. Then, to the President's surprise, Nehru expressed stronger criticism of Russia than he has ever done publicly. Nehru was furious, he said, over Russia's breach of faith; Moscow had gulled him into the fiction that the Soviet actions in Hungary were aimed at restoring order and peace. Angrily Nehru exploded that the Russians had been guilty of wholesale bloodletting and ruthless tyranny...
...Screw, hired Charles Dana Gibson to draw Gibson girls (at $1,000 a drawing) and Frederic Remington to paint cowboy scenes. In 1919 the magazine was sold to Crowell Publishing Co. (whose predecessor firm had bought Companion in 1885), turned from art and exposes to cartoons and light fiction. Circulation tumbled, recovered under able Editor William Ludlow Chenery (1925-43), started down again after World...
...SINGLE PEBBLE, by John Mersey. Novelist Hersey's best fiction performance to date; a short, graceful story of what happened when a practical U.S. idealist ran head on into ancient Chi nese superstition and stubbornness on the Yangtze River three decades...
...quite a few that have not. When the 10 flutes start a massed flutter-tongue passage, it sounds as prickly as a porcupine's wedding; other fascinating moments are reminiscent of a jazz band playing at top speed, a steam calliope, a sound track for a science-fiction film-all a frothy treat...
...Committee on the Encouragement of Scholarship announced yesterday that the lota Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa at Radcliffe will award five prizes of $25.00 each this Spring. Three of these prizes will be for original compositions in the fields of Science, Fiction and Social Studies. The remaining two will be for the best original poem and musical composition...