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AUGUST. Presley sings in Boston and thirty-seven mice stage a mass escape from the psycho labs beneath Mem Hall. Presley receives his draft notice and mass suicides follow. Russia gives Cecil B. DeMille rights to produce a film about the October revolution on location. Hemingway and Faulkner go on a fishing trip in the West Indies, come back with a new book entitled, "Beards, Booze, and Old Time Religion." Report sighting strange figure on raft, nude to waist, brandishing harpoon...
...Joseph Atkinson's daughter in 1915) became vice president in charge of the editorial departments, fully earned his job with his driving energy, his legendary zeal for pumping money and manpower into a good story, his ruthless discipline of staffers who failed to meet his exacting standards. Ernest Hemingway, Pierre van Paassen and many other famed authors worked as young reporters on his ever-changing staff in the years when Hindmarsh was turning the struggling Star and Star Weekly into Canada's most valuable single newspaper property (circulation: 408,545), with Toronto real-estate alone worth...
...tourist-packed Folies-Bergère, Al Capone waddles contemptuously in and out of a courthouse, Babe Ruth rounds the bases, Lindy goes into a teetering take-off to make history-and international pandemonium. (The searchers tried but never could track down one storied shot of young Ernest Hemingway feeding a martini to a poodle in Harry's Bar in Paris.) Somewhat less authentically, but no less evocatively, the movie puts together the story of the speakeasy, the gangster, and the upheaval in manners and morals largely out of clips from such forgotten contemporary films as Hot Money...
...elected in 1924 to the Chamber of Deputies (where he served 1924-32, 1936-39, 1946-55), during the next decade became notorious as a party hatchetman. He helped organize (1936) the International Brigade, won dubious recognition for his Spanish Civil War exploits from Novelist Ernest Hemingway: "He is crazy as a bedbug. He has a mania for shooting people...
Dreiser v. Proust. The new trainee is not allowed to write. He copies books of Lowney's choice-Joyce. Hemingway, Faulkner, Dos Passos and Raymond Chandler. Says she: "They copy the story from comma to comma, from cover to cover. It helps their typing and helps them forget themselves." No writer dares copy anything else. One disgruntled ex-trainee remembers being caught with a copy of Proust, which "Lowney snatched from me, ripped up and threw away. 'I didn't tell you to read that,' she shouted. 'Your God-damned style's too intellectual...