Word: novel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...however, one other distinction novel in a Taoiseach: he was a keen weekend golfer (averaging 85-90) at the Dublin Club, Eire's St. Andrews...
...Roberts (adapted by Thomas Heggen & Joshua Logan from Mr. Heggen's novel; produced by Leland Hayward) was a smash hit (advance sale: $400,000) weeks before it arrived on Broadway. Cased out of town, it was rumored to be out of this world. Happily, it is one of the better things in it: a good show superlatively produced; a rowdy, romantic, sometimes rather touching, sometimes uproariously funny wartime chronicle...
Author Heggen brought his successful short novel to Logan last August, after deciding that he didn't like his own stage version. For three months they hacked away at it together. Says Logan: "Nothing could stop it. It got up on its two feet and walked by itself." More accurately, 6 ft.-1 in., 200-lb. Josh Logan shoved the play into shape...
...days of the Roman republic." Taking only a few liberties with the historical events, Author Wilder has imagined the documents he needs and made a police-court dossier that has plausibility (the kind of plausibility that Robert Graves achieved in I, Claudius) without pretense to truth. Wilder calls his novel a "suppositional reconstruction." The result is an amusing book, or, more exactly, a very clever book based on an amusing idea...
...anti-Semitism from the girl he loves and goes home to California; Peter can get any woman into bed but the one he cares for, hates his job on a newsmagazine (Miller once worked eight weeks for TIME) and chucks New York to go to Mississippi and write a novel...