Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tommy Dorsey turned novelist and Harvard became the scene of yet another newspaper serial, as the first installment of "Love in Swingtime" appeared in the Boston Evening American last night...
Jimmy Marshall is the son of the late, great Louis Marshall, Jewish lawyer and philanthropist. He went to the Columbia School of Journalism, wrote a novel, Ordeal by Glory, married Novelist Lenore K. Guinzburg, eventually became a lawyer. A congenital battler for the underdog, he defended Southern Negroes before the U. S. Supreme Court, plunged into many a liberal cause. He also played Republican politics in Manhattan, where his fellow politicians lifted eyebrows at his radicalism...
...social forces, it poses a more strictly moral theme: the evil consequences of parents trying to realize their unfulfilled ambitions in their sons. The worse example of deluded fatherhood is William Essex (narrator of the story), who rises from the Manchester slums to fame as a novelist, determines that his only son, Oliver, shall have all the advantages he missed. His friend, Dermot O'Riorden, dedicates his son Rory to the cause of Irish revolution, which he laid aside when he became a famous interior decorator. Conveniently for the story, both sons (who also become friends) follow the course...
Hunters, fishermen and lovers of the great outdoors are seldom defensive about their tastes; in fact, they are usually a little patronizing toward persons who do not share them. But in the days of Henry Van Dyke, Theodore Roosevelt, and Novelist Ralph Connor (The Sky Pilot, The Man from Glengarry], an intellectual who liked to fish felt compelled to discover deep political, moral, social and physical values in fishing, and the literature of that period is filled with accounts of wastrels who quit drinking after a period in the woods, of sick men who got back their health stalking deer...
...bright accounts of the good times Ralph Connor enjoyed, and dull philosophizing about the spiritual value of his good times, both to himself and others. Born in 1860, the son of Scotch settlers in upper Quebec, a crusading preacher (his real name was Charles Gordon), Ralph Connor, became a novelist almost by accident. He wrote a story for a Canadian religious magazine, cut it up into three sections, kept adding chapters until it was long enough to be published as a novel, Black Rock. It was an immediate success, and with its successors. The Sky Pilot and The Man from...