Word: manne
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Decision, and it called itself "a new forum for the creative spirit." Most distinguished thing about Decision was the list of writers and intellectuals who had banded together to produce it. Its editor is a German-born exile from Nazi-occupied Czecho-Slovakia and The Netherlands: slight, balding Klaus Mann, son of Nobel Prizewinning Novelist Thomas Mann. Editorial advisers include such refugee notables as Dr. Eduard Benes, Stefan Zweig, Somerset Maugham, such native littérateurs as Playwright Robert Sherwood, Newsman Vincent Sheean, Editor (of The Nation) Freda Kirchwey, Taletellers Stephen Vincent Benét and Sherwood Anderson...
...Editor Mann, Decision was a continuation of a familiar chore. In Amsterdam, before the war, he published a refugee magazine in German, Die Sammlung ("The Collection"), which ran two years. Exile Mann got his idea for Decision last year, spent six months selling it to rich U. S. friends. Some of his backers: Edgar Kaufmann Jr. of Pittsburgh's Kaufmann department stores; Lawyer Louis Nizer, who lately published a book. Thinking On Your Feet; Mrs. Marcus Koshland of San Francisco; Father Thomas Mann. A Czech citizen, in the U. S. on a visitor's permit, Klaus Mann gets...
Even without his famed associates, Klaus Mann could do a good job of editing a magazine by simply depending on his family connections. Among his contributors and contributors-to-be are Father Mann, Uncle Heinrich Mann (a novelist too), Sister Erika Mann, Erika's British poet husband Wystan Hugh Auden, Poet Auden's British novelist friend, Christopher William Bradshaw-Isherwood...
...year in which established writers like Lewis, Mann, Gather, Millay, Huxley, Caldwell, Faulkner, Werfel, Farrell, O'Hara continued to pour out their hearts and more especially their words. It was the year in which Thomas Wolfe's last work was published. His book seemed less like the new start he had hoped it was than an effort to clear his desk and brain for that new start...
...BELOVED RETURNS-Thomas Mann -Knopf...