Word: hemingways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...program was to tell the "inside story of world events," the inside usually being more dirt on the dictatorships. But it did not go really leftish and its original leftish editorial connections-Jay Cooke Allen (Chicago Tribune'?, foreign correspondent), George Seldes (You Can't Print That!), Ernest Hemingway- gradually drifted away. Editor Gingrich went on publishing sensational "inside" stories, not consistently taking any political side, while Ken drifted also as a business venture...
...that Jerome Weidman's two novels, I Can Get It For You Wholesale and What's In It For Me?, were being withdrawn from circulation. The circumstances were unusual. Reviewers had praised them, ranked Weidman with such sourball writers as John O'Hara, James M. Cain, Hemingway. But Weidman's Semitic hero was such a heel that he roused antiSemitism. Author Weidman, and many a reader, regarded his villainous Harry Bogen as a deliberately horrible example. Publishers Simon & Schuster denied the report, announced that they were selling 100 copies a month of the books...
...concerns Japan's invasion of China. It was made by Joris Ivens and John Ferno, whose Spanish Earth was the best documentary film of 1937, and whose trip to China last year was financed by screen and literary celebrities like Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Dashiell Hammett and William Osgood Field. Equipped with an accompanying commentary written by Dudley Nichols and recited by Actor Fredric March, The 400,000,000 sets out to show that China not only deserves to win its war but has a chance to do so, reaches a climax with the Chinese recapture of Taierhchwang...
...when' is a serious poem written by a major poet. . . . Any poem, on the other hand, ending with 'And how' comes under the head of light verse, written by a minor poet." Or his suggestion for a digest to end digests, "which condensed a Hemingway novel to the single word 'Bang!' and reduced a long Scribner's article about the problem of the unruly child to the two words 'Hit him.' " The most polished baiter of TIMEstyle extant, he includes A Guide to the Pronunciation of Words in TIME...
...stories in Sirocco follow the pattern of those experiences. With superb characterizations, plenty of dash, touches of sympathy, they add up to something more than Hemingway's bloodlettings. Bates writes as movingly about a Fascist woman doctor as about a Loyalist scout, most movingly about humble, non-partisan farmers and fishermen ten years before...