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When Van Wyck Brooks reached those middle years in which a writer dreams of consummating his career with a masterwork, he began his ambitious literary history of the U.S. The Flowering of New England, first volume of the history, provoked one of the bitterest intellectual battles of our time...
Died. James Gamble Rogers, 80, architect of the old school, whose modern masterwork is Manhattan's enormous Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and whose quainter works include many college buildings (one Rogers building at Yale is Gothic on one side, Georgian on the other); in his Medical Center...
...this masterwork Miss Nichols is paid an estimated $6,000 a week. She is used to making money from Abie: she has lived off it for 21 years. In that time it has earned her some $2,000,000 in royalties-plus a half million or so from the movie version. At present, she says, several Hollywood studios are again bidding for Abie. She hopes that this time they will do many installments-like the Andy Hardy series...
...most of the last 14 years, Mrs. Berg, wife of a consultant on sugar technology and mother of two, has ground out her soapy, five-a-week masterwork (now on CBS, Mon.-Fri., 1:45-2 p.m., E.W.T.) for Procter & Gamble. It has been hard work, paid for by $5,000 a week. Mrs. Berg, who started at $50 a week, also produces, directs and plays the leading lady (Molly) of her Goldberg saga. Now 42 and a millionairess, Mrs. Berg has a ten-room duplex in Manhattan, an estate in Bedford Hills...
...year ago Thomas Mann was appointed consultant in German literature for the Library of Congress. As a member of the staff. Librarian Archibald MacLeish asked Mann to make a speech before a small group in Washington, suggested that he discuss his great, four-volume, just-finished masterwork Joseph and His Brothers. (The final volume, Joseph the Provider, is slated for publication this fall.) Author Mann was at first "startled and disconcerted." Would it not, he asked, "seem terribly presumptuous, vain and egocentric" to talk of a mere novel in a time of world war? That would depend, he decided...