Word: much
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moon has the essential gift of the novelist-to let his characters live their own lives-but he sacrifices too much of it for the sake of his propaganda point. This apparently had less weight than the book's solid merits with Doubleday & Co., which has been awarding the George Washington Carver prize since 1945, for "outstanding writing by or about American Negroes." The current award has gone to Bucklin Moon...
...began as a reporter on the Boston Post in 1909. Much of / Wanted is a plodding recital of his rise from $18 to $45 a week (in six years) as a newsman, followed by success as a roving reporter for the Satevepost (1919-1937). In 1928, another champion of doggedness got him started writing novels. Advised his Maine friend & neighbor, Booth Tarkington: "Dig up the biggest blankbook you own and get going. Put down Arundel, page 1, Chapter 1,' on the first page, and keep right on working until you fall asleep...
Plain Frenchmen don't care much for cocktails (rhymes, in France, with knock-wells), and even if they did they could not afford them at Paris' better saloons. But they watched with amusement as 18 of the capital's top bartenders gathered last week for a cocktail-mixing contest in Paris' Hotel Continental. As the competition went on the proceedings got somewhat out of hand, and befuddled professional interest became intense when one of the contestants tried mixing his ingredients directly in the consumer...
...Class Album has never been one of the strongest organizations in the College. It usually has amounted to an uninteresting collation of three years of sports, a huge, incredibly dull section of individual picture and not much else. The man who gets stuck the editor's job must either be a genius at getting things-done or write it-himself...
...complete reorganization of the Album setup seems to be the only way out of the quagmire. It should not be a completely "senior" book--it would have much more interest if it were angled to a year, not a class. Some copies might even be sold to undergraduates, especially freshmen, and the traditionally harassed business manager could probably squeeze out some more advertising if there was a chance that the readership would stay in Cambridge for another year or more...