Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crime shows, CBS's Wanted (Thurs. 10:30 p.m.) and The Lineup (Fri. 10 p.m.), follow the Dragnet pattern of sticking to fact, however stranger fiction may be. Wanted told the unhappy story of a sadistic wife-beater and general no-good, who accidentally killed a girl by running her down with his car. After being sentenced to a maximum ten years for manslaughter, he jumped bail and is now WANTED. The deplorable principle of the show was to portray the villain as so abhorrent that all viewers would ride along to the very end having a happy hate...
...Vise (Fri. 9:30, NBC) makes no pretense at handling fact, nor does it seem very handy with fiction. It claims to tell stories of "people caught in the jaws of a vise, in a dilemma of their own making." Last week The Vise had a famous English actress meet a married real-estate agent in a small English town. Sample dialogue: "She: I'm in love with you. He: But you have the whole world at your feet. She: But it's you I want." She gets him. But then he gets her. It seems...
Murchison: "There was a rumor in Texas Vanderbilt wanted to buy these shares. I got [my lawyer] to go to Vanderbilt. He said the rumor was fiction." With that, Murchison went ahead with the deal. He asked Partner Sid Richardson, one of the world's richest oilmen, to come in with him because $20 million "occurred to me as a pretty big bite to take alone." Well, how much was Mr. Murchison worth? asked court-appointed Referee Robert J. Fitzsimmons. Answered Murchison : "About five, six or seven million." As it turned out, though, he did not need any money...
...fine sense of humor, and he avoids any heavy-handed thematic underscoring. It is not a polished story, nor is the plot, which concerns the effect of an enigmatic deckhand upon those around it's a very original one. But it is an even well-sustained piece of fiction. "The Beau Monde of Mrs. Bridge," by Evan S. Connell, is satire on mid-western, upper-middle class morality. It is not able for a placidity of viewpoint unlike much social satire. The other stories are marred more or less, as I have said, by an obvious effort to be murky...
...there is nothing to bewail in Paris Review 10. A literary periodical which can consistently publish fiction no worse than fair deserves a good deal of praise...