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...managing editor of Good Housekeeping advises, "If you write for your own amusement, you can be as dismal as you choose, but the public continues to prefer entertainment to morbidity . . . I often feel that if I come across one more trauma or psycho-analyst's couch in a manuscript, I will become a manic-depressive and scream...
...found the log of the U-boat that sank the Lusitania. Also in the Hoover party were Louis Lochner, prewar A.P. bureau chief in Berlin, and Hugh Gibson, onetime ambassador to Belgium. Lochner translated the diaries for Mason, and Gibson is an editorial adviser to Doubleday. The original manuscript is now in the possession of Herbert Hoover's war library at Stanford...
...been admitted to the National Institute of Arts & Letters but thinks little of some of his colleagues ("Those slobwogs!"). Last year, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony, unplayed for 36 years while the manuscript gathered dust in his barn. After receiving the prize, he granted a rare newspaper interview. When a reporter congratulated him, he refused to shake hands, roared: "Prizes, bah! What do I care for prizes! They are the badge of mediocrity...
Sindlinger's technique (what pollsters call "pretesting audience reaction") isn't new, but some of his refinements are. At his New Entertainment Workshop on a farm in Hopewell, N.J., a staff boils down the author's manuscript to a one-hour reading which is then recorded. The records are played in various cities and towns to hand-picked groups who first munch refreshments, and then all sit down together to hear the boiled-down book read, and record their impressions throughout (from "superior" to "bad") on an electronic gadget called Teldox. When it's all over...
Violinist Joseph Szigeti was jubilant over the manuscript that had come to him from Soviet Russia. Said he: "When Prokofiev was the very bad boy of music, I pioneered for him, and he has never forgotten." Twenty-three years ago in Prague it was Szigeti who had started Prokofiev's masterful Violin Concerto No. 1 on its way to fame. Last week in San Francisco, Szigeti bowed and plucked his way through the U.S. première of Prokofiev's new Sonata...