Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grande dame of magazine heart-tuggers had never paid much attention to the radio until last summer, when Novelist Husband Charles (Brass, Bread, Salt) became ill and had a spell of enforced listening. When Swan wanted a new writer for its 3½-year-old forenoon romance, indefatigable Mrs. Norris, 64, jumped at the chance to "start a new line." She found it easy work: "In magazines you have to fill in with long, luxurious descriptions...
After nearly 15 years' absence from the U.S., mostly in France, Novelist Louis Bromfield returned in 1938 to his native Ohio valley near Mansfield, bought three rundown farms, built a big house, and organized a cooperative farming community. Pleasant Valley is his story of the venture. Its 301 readable pages are crammed with anecdotes and opinions, experiences in house building and land reclamation, bits of autobiography and local history, and a few modest essays, modeled on Thoreau, on wild life, farm life, and the healing power of the land...
...eight inches of topsoil was added-to exhausted fields. One of the tenants stole, and, when the sheriff ordered him away, broke all the windows in his house. Another started quarrels among the farmers. But for the most part life went pleasantly and rewardingly. Whether anyone but a prosperous novelist could afford such an experiment, Author Bromfield does...
Booth Tarkington, 75-year-old, two-time Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist and connoisseur of art, who summers at Kennebunkport, Me., attacked the Kennebunkport post office mural, an old WPA project depicting bulgy bathers on a beach. Author Tarkington regarded the work as "painful to Kennebunkport's old timers. Why, Kennebunkport doesn't even have a bathing beach...
...stethoscope when he called late one night to listen to the heart of a lady patient. He leaned down, listened, fell asleep and remained there almost half an hour. The lady thought it "an exceptionally thorough examination." Another famed Philadelphia doctor, S. (for Silas) Weir Mitchell, was a successful novelist, an expert on snake bites, and a pioneer U.S. neurologist. When his own nerves gave way, he rushed to Europe, consulted a Viennese specialist, was told: "In your own country is the man who can do you most good. His name is Dr. S. Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia...