Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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World's Greatest Audience. To satisfy network needs, and develop competent hacks and sparkling geniuses, both NBC and CBS have plans to dragnet the nation for new writing talent. NBC's plan, more ambitious, aims at attracting established fiction writers to TV and developing new ones. Five well-known U.S. novelists, including James (From Here to Eternity) Jones, are already interested. NBC also plans to put a dozen dramatists on staff at regular salaries, hoping to prove that security can quicken the dramatic muse even more than hunger...
...cruising spaceships of science fiction are beyond present-day capabilities. Theoretically they are possible, but many layers of problems must be cleared away before they can set their courses for the moon or Mars. The most difficult problems are human: how to keep the crews alive in space and how to get them back to earth in reasonably good condition. Both problems are bypassed by making man's first step toward space a satellite that carries no crew and is not expected to return to earth...
...fact and fiction, U.S. executives have always belonged to country clubs, and used them as much for business profit as weekend pleasure. But in today's expense-account economy, country clubs are assuming a new importance to established businessmen and young executives. With the spectacular postwar rise of golf, more and more companies are taking out country-club memberships for their men, both as a means of giving them a tax-free pay boost and as a sound business maneuver. There are few better ways for businessmen to develop new contacts, keep customers happy, sell their products and themselves...
...made a brave effort last week to do more than merely entertain. It tried to say something. In its handling of the news and its treatment of drama, it tried to reach beyond fact to what was significant, and beyond fiction to what was meaningful. Unhappily, on all three levels-news, drama and new summer entertainment-TV fell ingloriously on its face...
...WOMAN IN THE CASE, by Edgar Lustgarten (218 pp.; Scribner; $3), is a retelling-and also a brilliant explanation -of four famed British murder trials in which women figured prominently. A well-written account of a true crime has twice the chilling impact of fiction. Author Lustgarten, equipped with a sharp, legally trained mind and a novelist's eye and heart, is probably just the man to succeed William Roughhead and Edmund Pearson as top writer in the true-crime field...