Word: lillian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ELIZABETH Is MISSING"-Lillian de la Torre-Knopf...
...exception. One of their favorites is: "What is wrong with the Christian church today?" Put to 100 clergymen and laymen (mostly Protestant) throughout the U.S., this high-explosive question blew several Protestant tops. The current issue of Georgia's semiannual South Today, edited by Paula Snelling and Lillian (Strange Fruit) Smith, tried to piece churchmen's scattered replies (they were speaking as individuals) into a bill of particulars against the churches. Samples...
...Lillian Hellman, tart-tongued problematic playwright, home from a four-month visit in the U.S.S.R., brought a startlingly simple solution to a major postwar problem: at the front she said she met "high-ranking Red Army men" who asked her what the U.S. is going to do about Argentina. When she countered, "What is Russia going to do about Franco?", the officers told her they would handle fascism in Europe, hoped the U.S. would do the same on this side of the world. Although Miss Hellman did not get to see Stalin, she did become one of the very...
...jazzed up to hold the doubled circulation Publisher Cox has built since 1939, will nonetheless keep the old accent on the homespun and homegrown. Its first issue featured an interview with rarely interviewed Margaret (Gone With the Wind) Mitchell, a Journal alumna. Its second spotlighted another Georgia big-name, Lillian Smith, telling what happens to a Southerner who writes a controversial novel (Strange Fruit) about the South. (What happens: "I was told I would lose my friends, that my family would be injured. . . . We're all well and happy." Friends showed "wonderful loyalty.") The Journal paid Miss Smith...
...previous three: Lillian Smith's Strange Fruit, Kathleen Winsor's Forever Amber, Joseph S. Pennell's The History of Rome Hanks...