Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Philadelphia police arrested Charles Kemble Butler Wister, 29, son of Novelist Owen Wister, for drunken driving, few hours later arrested the Wister chauffeur, David J. McNaull, for attempting to lure three high-school girls into his automobile...
Some readers may recognize Lin Yü-t'ang (My Country and My People}, but Lu Hsün, "China's Chekhov," and Mao Tun, "perhaps the outstanding novelist of China today," will be new acquaintances...
HAVE YOU ANYTHING TO DECLARE?- Maurice Baring-Knopf ($2.75). Quotations, neatly plastered with stickers of urbane commentary, from the English novelist's lifetime literary baggage...
...Spain sailed Novelist Ernest Hemingway to cover the Loyalists' side of the fighting for North American Newspaper Alliance, and Matador Sidney Franklin of Brooklyn to fight bulls...
...half-interest in his stamp collection. When he was away at school, Jane sent him stamps, among them one of an uncatalogued Antigua issue. But by that time Oliver considered stamp-collecting unmanly. Their mutual interest subsided. They grew up. Years later, when Oliver was a still-unsuccessful novelist and Jane a highly successful actress-manageress with her own theatre, they met again. Again there was a quarrel; the subject of the stamp collection revived. Oliver considered that by this time Jane had forfeited her rights in it, refused to acknowledge her claim. When he went home he looked over...