Word: nov
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Living Desert. Walt Disney's first full-length film of nature in the raw; seldom mild, often cruelly beautiful (TIME, Nov...
...Sizzling & Sensational." One of the Mirror's fiercest battles was against its two afternoon competitors, Hearst's Herald & Express and the ailing Daily News. In editorials and news stories, all three papers constantly fire away (TIME, Nov. 24, 1952 et seq.) at one another. For example, in the middle of the Mirror's liquor-license series, Newsmen discovered that Mirror Movie Columnist Florabel Muir had herself sold a license in just the way Mirror had said was "sizzling and sensational." Columnist Muir promptly resigned (TIME...
...vast, sprawling novel, Not as a Stranger, a book as fantastically sincere as its hero. When Novelist Thompson died last summer at 45, he had to his credit an intense, rough-edged novel about Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, the identifier of childbed fever (The Cry and the Covenant; TIME, Nov. 14, 1949). One thing Thompson had obviously wanted to be: a doctor. Failing that, he had desperately wanted to write well, especially about doctors and medicine. He never became a doctor, and he never became a top writer, but what he lacked in craft was more than made up in sincerity...
Triumph and Tragedy, by Winston Churchill. Sixth and last volume of the best of all World War II accounts (TIME, Nov...
Except the Lord, by Joyce Gary. How poverty and a sense of predestination sent a young Englishman out into the world with a fire in his heels (TIME, Nov...