Word: goulding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts & Letters was William Saroyan, gamin of dramaturgy, along with fellow litterateurs Samuel N. Behrman, James Gould Cozzens, John Gneisenau Neihardt. Now an Army private, bad boy Saroyan remained silent about the organization of which Sinclair Lewis once remarked that it "does not represent American letters today. It represents only Henry Wadsworth Longfellow." Elected vice president: ex-bad boy Sinclair Lewis...
...Army announced last week that the Symington-Gould tank-armor plant in Rochester (N.Y.), on which construction was abruptly halted last November, was being completed for aircraft production. In Kansas City the Darby Corp.'s assembly lines, originally designed to make parts for tank-landing boats, were last week turning out bombs for Flying Fortresses...
...Cornelius Starr bought the English-language Shanghai Evening News for $2,500. Starr changed the paper's name to the Post, later bought out the British-owned Mercury for $10,000, hired as editor 44-year-old, Minnesota-born Randall Gould, ex-Far East correspondent for TIME, United Press, Christian Science Monitor...
...lean years losses totaled about $250,000. Both the Chinese and Japanese Governments frequently tried to win the Post's support by subsidy; Starr and Gould always retorted: "We'll quit publishing first!" Wang Ching-wei, head of the Japanese-supported regime in Nanking, once futilely ordered Starr and Gould deported. Through it all, by sticking rigidly to their pledge to "follow the American newspaper tradition of free speech," Starr and Gould finally lifted their fledgling publication into the black. By Dec. 7, 1941, they were averaging $35,000 a year net profit...
During the year: > Many writers, some despairing of interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...