Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...James A. Michener, for his novel Tales of the South Pacific; Tennessee Williams, for his play, A Streetcar Named Desire; Bernard De Voto, for his history Across the Wide Missouri; Margaret Clapp, for her biography Forgotten First Citizen: John Bigelow; to W. H. Auden, for his "baroque eclogue" Age of Anxiety; Walter Piston, for his Symphony...
...Trembling (adapted by Louis Paul from his novel Breakdown; produced by Paul Czinner and C. P. Jaeger) is a very exhaustive, and very exhausting, study of a dipsomaniac. It reveals Ellen Croy, a Manhattan newspaper columnist (Elisabeth Bergner), as a driven soul, harrowed by something in her life which she can neither exorcise nor explain. The play follows her step by step, relationship by relationship-boss (Anthony Ross), husband (Millard Mitchell), old friend (John Carradine)-down into the pit. Then it slowly drags her back into the light...
Twelve 0'Clock High! is a "novel" about wartime flying that should be dismissed as fiction and read as a document. Written by two 20th Century-Fox screen writers, it could be shot from the cuff by any resourceful director (Hollywood bought it before publication). Its authors were also among the first U.S. flyers to bomb Hitler's Fortress Europe...
...movie (like the novel) propounds the obvious: that when a poor man (Van Heflin) marries a rich girl (Barbara Stanwyck) her money is a problem. The passages satirizing Wall Street and the New Deal are so plainly extraneous and contrived that even the actors seem embarrassed. In the end, Right & Left are reconciled in one mighty smooch in a darkened Washington apartment...
...Felton set a new Harvard record in the hammer against Rhode Island State in the Stadium Saturday, but it was novel-writing Captain Frank Gurley who broke up the meet and gave the Crimson a 74 to 66 win. The loss was Rhode island State's first in 12 years of dual competition...