Word: fictioners
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hits of the literary season. The movies (20th Century-Fox) have paid a $100,000 tribute to it, the Literary Guild is carrying it into hundreds of thousands of American living rooms, and for the sixth straight week it stands at the top of the fiction bestseller list...
...fiction of Arab League unity was coming to an end. But the quarrel has its encouraging side: so long mistrustful of the West and tending to neutralism, the Arabs are debating not whether to throw in with the West, but when...
Nobel Prizewinning Novelist William Faulkner, after picking up the National Book Award for last year's best fiction (A Fable), gave a peripatetic interview to New York Timesman Harvey Breit as the two strolled down Manhattan's gilt-edged Park Avenue. Faulkner suddenly exclaimed that his widely quoted statement about fellow Nobel Prizewinning Author Ernest Hemingway's literary cowardice (TIME, Dec. 13) had been Yoknapatawphaed all out of context.* "I was asked the question down at the University of Mississippi-who were the five best contemporary writers and how did I rate them," drawled Faulkner...
...carries some of the connotations of magic in the nonscientific man's vocabulary. So much has been written on what's new in medical science and what science reveals that it is [hard] for the man in the street to understand where science leaves off and science fiction begins." As a result, said Bach, the patient often reveres his doctor "who is the only real live scientist he knows [as] a dispenser of wonder drugs and a performer of life-saving operations." Worse, many a doctor is playing along with the myth: "He thinks that in order...
...Americas), novelist (Death of Kings); of cancer; in Ciboure, France. Wertenbaker directed TIME'S coverage of the Normandy beachhead, was among the first newsmen to enter liberated Paris, received the Medal of Freedom from the U.S. Army for "exceptionally meritorious achievement." In 1948 he retired to write fiction...