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...themselves that's new and different . . . . They aren't trying to write like Hemingway . . . . Lately things have been picking up . . . . Our literature is just on the verge of getting significant." He singled out as the best of the young writers Jean (The Mountain Lion} Stafford, Thomas (Mister Roberts) Heggen, A. B. (The Big Sky) Guthrie Jr., and shared Robert Penn Warren's enthusiasm for Eudora (Delta Wedding) Welty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: What's Wrong? | 8/4/1947 | See Source »

...hard on shows as cool reviews, and from now on one Broadway theater after another will be going dark. But these shows and standbys are almost sure to span the summer: Oklahoma!, Voice of the Turtle, Harvey, State of the Union, Born Yesterday, Annie Get Your Gun, Call Me Mister, Finian's Rainbow, Brigadoon, All My Sons, Happy Birthday, John Loves Mary, Sweethearts, Burlesque-and Life with Father, which next week will beat Tobacco Road's record (3,182 performances)for the longest run in Broadway history...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Trial by Fire | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

Miss O'Hara, outraged, sets the house psychiatrist (Porter Hall) on Kris Kringle, but "Mister Macy" calls off the goons when it develops that Kris has turned one of the most lucrative good-will tricks in commercial history. "Mister Gimbel" hurriedly returns the compliment-he and Mister Macy are even photographed shaking hands-and the whole Manhattan department-store trade glows with the new love-your-neighbor policy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...sort of edged up aside him and, says I, 'Mister, will you have a few draps?' He blowed an awful sigh, and says he, 'This is a wicked and a perverse generation of vipers, young man.' [But] that shovel-shaped underlip of his jist fell outwards like the fallin door of a coal stove, and he upsot the gourd inside of his teeth. I seed the mark of the truck agoing down his throat jist like a snake travelin through a wet sausage gut. He smelt into the gourd a good long smell, turned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Preachers, Varments, Planners | 2/10/1947 | See Source »

...Heaven" and "The Well-Digger's Daughter," the last of which enters its third week at the Exeter. Most of these pictures out-distance by far the much less attractive wares which the legitimate theater is offering currently, with the noteworthy exception of the wise and witty "Call Me Mister...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/5/1947 | See Source »

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