Word: marian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...creation of Marian and Hanna Kister, the Roj (Beehive) Publishers was the biggest fiction publishing house in pre-Nazi Poland. Started after World War I with a cheap edition of Jack London, it grew by virtue of its translations (Proust, Sigrid Undset, Pearl Buck, Galsworthy) to 1 80 volumes a year. In Manhattan last week the Beehive Publishers (transliterated to Roy for the U.S. trade) were again as busy as bees. In between was a story of terror and struggle...
Just Fun. In Kansas City, Mrs. Betty West and Mrs. Marian Braidwood went shopping, reported that they saw successively pour out of a department store: 1) a wave of women, 2) a rat, 3) a woman who wailed ". . . he's a pet, he's just having fun," and crammed the rat back into her pocketbook...
...really judicious) or novel writing at 52 (because he had had enough). He is busy with photography, a craft in which he has dabbled since 1895 and of which he is now a top-flight practitioner. His forthcoming one-man show in Harlem will include pictures of Cab Galloway, Marian Anderson, Bill Robinson, Ethel Waters, Claude McKay, Joe Louis...
HOME SWEET HOMICIDE- Craig Rice- Simon & Schuster ($2). The three active children of mystery-writing Marian Carstairs were practically in at the death when murder came next door, and in their own inimitable fashion pointed out the solution to a brace of long-suffering detectives. You may forget the murder while you laugh at the kids, but from all angles it's about the best bet of the year...
Harry Burleigh lives in The Bronx, has been separated from his wife for some 25 years. Their son is Major Alston Waters Burleigh, U.S.A., and there is also a grandson in the Army. Harry Burleigh has had the means to help many younger Negro musicians, including Marian Anderson, who sang on one of his programs when she was publicly unknown. He views social problems with a conservative eye, believing that the Negro should advance himself through individual effort rather than political action. A musician of classical training, he is not at all interested in jazz. His hobby: detective stories...