Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, CBS presented him as a radio star in a new program tailored to his short, (5 ft. 2 in.), explosive measure. "Shorty Bell" (Sun. 9:30 p.m., E.S.T.), "a novel written especially for the air," is a continued story about a tough young newspaper circulation hustler who would give his brass knuckles to be a reporter...
William Francis Casey, a newsman himself, once wrote a novel about an ambitious, grasping newspaperman. He called it Portrait of a Successful Man. Nobody who knew William Francis Casey thought it was in the least autobiographical. Last week success went out of its way to settle on Casey. After 35 faithful years on the staff, he became editor of the London Times, which makes him a kind of pope of Britain's press...
Here is a novel that is all skill and brilliance on the outside-English Novelist Clewes knows his way around words-but morally sick at the core. As such, it seems symptomatic of much current writing...
...this comes off quite convincingly in Clewes's tight novel. But after having enjoyed this odd story the reader may wonder: What is the author trying to say? That Bullivant is a weakling and Slater a no-good and that weaklings and no-goods cause trouble'? Granted. But is that sufficient ground for implying, as this novel clearly does, that the partisans' original attitude was morally right, that passivity is preferable to active resistance to tyranny? The Dreader may wonder what is the decay of values, the spiritual malaise that leads so talented a writer to write...
...split four ways among B.O.M. Judges Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield, Clifton Fadiman and John P. Marquand. They have bought a salable name (Miss Pinckney's earlier Three O'Clock Dinner was a bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts scrappily with the question of good & evil, is as far from the intent and purpose of Moralist Hawthorne as it is from literature-a considerable distance...