Word: fisher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pontiac, like Oldsmobile last year, has split into two lines, sixes and eights. Both have all G. M. and Fisher Body standard features; both have bulbous radiators and wide winglike fenders; both are designed for the buyer who wants small-car economy with big-car gadgets...
...BETRAYED-Vardis Fisher-Doubleday, Doran...
Painfully haltingly, but with slowly increasing assurance, Vardis Fisher is giving the lie to one of his old instructors, Professor-Novelist Robert Herrick. who once told him he would never "write a novel worth opening." Last week readers who had long since shut Herrick's old-fashioned novels were opening Vardis Fisher's latest book with mingled anticipation and dread. After reading the first two volumes of his U. S. tetralogy (In Tragic Life, Passions Spin the Plot), they knew they could expect a vicariously agonizing experience, reported with such rare and serious candor that it would give...
...Author-Grim-faced Vardis Fisher's life, like his hero's, has been hard. Says he: "I try to portray life as I see and have seen it; and because I have seen so much that is brutal and ruthless, vulgar and unlessoned and because I believe that all aspects of human life belong in serious novels, my books are called brutal and ruthless. . . . The only good book, in my opinion, is an honest book, and no book, I am sure, can be honest and wholly...
...grandson of pioneers, Vardis Fisher was born in 1895 in Annis, Idaho, had the same kind of stony childhood and struggling education he writes about. After taking his Ph.D. at the University of Chicago (1925), he went back to the University of Utah as instructor in English, then to New York University. With his second wife, Margaret Trusler, whom he married in 1929, he now lives on his father's ranch, near Ririe, Idaho. The titles for the first three volumes of his tetralogy were taken from his admired George Meredith (Modern Love...