Word: golden
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Donated to San Simeon Museum in Golden Gate Park...
Every year about this time, for merit, for publicity, and for fun, people get awards. Last week the following awards made news: In New Hampshire, Colby Junior College elected Wendell L. Willkie honorary king and Katharine Hepburn queen of its Winter Carnival. Marking the Golden Jubilee of his U. S. concert debut, 7,000 musicians, orchestras, schools and clubs throughout the country tuned strings and cleared throats for a week of programs in National Testimonial to hoary Ignace Jan Paderewski. For the New York Newspaper Women's Club, Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt awarded $100 each to the Herald Tribune...
Claudia (by Rose Franken, produced by John Golden) is a bride of a year (Dorothy McGuire) whose architect husband (Donald Cook) has established her in a Connecticut farmhouse de luxe. She is also childishly established in an attachment to her mother. It takes pregnancy and the knowledge that her mother has an incurable cancer to begin to grow Claudia...
Marcus Goodrich was famous in New York literary circles ten years ago for his golden tongue. He used to talk this book in evenings of inspired storytelling. In it he put his experience on a destroyer in the last war, heightened by his study of Melville's towering symbolism, Conrad's profuse style, and James's snakelike character analyses. While he talked his book, Goodrich earned his living from advertising and the movies. Now that he has got it on paper, he is a full-fledged, first-rate novelist...
...fruitcake of mere arty melodrama. But Carson McCullers tells her tale with simplicity, insight, and a rare gift of phrase. She makes its tortures seem at least as valid as the dull suburban tragedies from Farrell's or Dreiser's Midwest, commonly called lifelike. Reflections in a Golden Eye is the Southern school at its most Gothic, but also at its best. It is as though William Faulkner saw to the bottom of matters which merely excite him, shed his stylistic faults, and wrote it all out with Tolstoyan lucidity...