Word: mailers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dana Reed prize is awarded by the editors of the 1943 Album, out of the yearbook's profits. This year's judges were Cleveland Amory '39, author of "The Proper Bostonians"; Joseph F. Barnes '27, former editor of the New York Star; and Norman Mailer '43, author of "The Naked and the Dead...
...Norman Mailer, whose The Naked and the Dead is still a bestselling U.S. novel, was too outspoken for the British. "Incredibly foul and beastly . . . No decent man could leave it lying about the house, or know without shame that his womenfolk were reading it," fumed the Sunday Times in a front-page editorial...
...conference chairman. Quietly working around him was the same hard core of trained Communists, the same muddle of the earnest and the inexperienced. The list of sponsors included such familiar leftist names as Playwright Arthur (Death of a Salesman) Miller, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, Composer Aaron Copland, Poet Louis Untermeyer, New York Times Critic Olin Downes...
...will compete with such books as Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe," Churchill's "The Gathering Storm," Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in The Human Male," and "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer '41 for the Gutenberg Award, to be given by the Book Manufacturer's Institute...
Perhaps the most interesting selection in the magazine is John Snow's critique of "The Naked and The Dead." Snow manages to take apart the professional critics neatly and without an undue display of emotion, and then proceeds to point out the qualities of Mailer's novel which never occurred to those who typed him as a straight Dos Passos-Hemingway disciple. This is a considered review which stresses affirmative qualities in the novel unnoticed by most commentators...