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...FLOWERS FOR SHINER (372 pp.) -Richard Llewellyn-Macmillan...
...Writing is easy," Welsh Novelist Richard Llewellyn once said. "You just go home and roll up your sleeves and it comes." This method, which might only bring gooseflesh to the ordinary arm, has produced a rash of virulently contagious novels from Llewellyn's. He first broke out in 1940 with How Green Was My Valley, which spread to over 700,000 customers and also flared up in a Hollywood movie. While the fever raged, many readers and a few critics raved that it was a great novel. By 1943, when None But the Lonely Heart appeared, Llewellyn...
...Flowers for Shiner the strain is notably weakened: plenty of people will still take Llewellyn, but few are apt to be knocked off their feet. But in Hollywood there may well be an epidemic of ecstasy; a clod could scarcely fail to make an exciting movie out of this book. How can a director miss with a story whose heroine is a truck...
Audience Poll. Ascoli will write the lead editorial for each issue, and look over the shoulder of Managing Editor Llewellyn White, 49, a veteran newsman (the Paris Herald, Newsweek, the Chicago Sun, OWI). Besides his editorial staff of 34, including Pulitzer Prizewinner Leland Stowe, White has lined up an impressive list of outside contributors, e.g., Herald Tribune Editorialist Walter Millis, Historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Critic Alfred Kazin. The Reporter will print few photographs, use cartoons and black & white drawings to brighten the text...
...Sophomore Class will soon be asked to sponsor a scholarship as a memorial to the late Francis Llewellyn Davis '51, the Class Committee announced last night. Davis died of arthritis at his Swarthmore, Pennsylvania home on January...