Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Blimp-like indignation, haled his landlord, Lieut. Colonel Sir Thomas Moore. M.P., into court, got him fined $29. Reason: over the doorway of the building where Wells lives, Sir Thomas had posted a large sign for a Salvation Army Service Club on the premises. Fumed the novelist: "[I am] entirely hostile to this needless cheapening of one of the best sites in London." Fumed the M.P. (who refused to tear down the sign): "They may prosecute me again. ... I shall bring the matter up in Parliament...
From Voltaire to Lenin, Europe's political exiles have found a haven in Switzerland. Recent notable refugees: Novelist Thomas Mann, running away from the Nazis in 1933; Countess Galeazzo (Edda Mussolini) Ciano, running away from the Allies and Nazis this year...
Missing in Action. Count Antoine de Saint Exupéry, 44, best-selling French aviator-novelist (Wind, Sand and Stars, Flight to Arras); on a reconnaissance flight over Europe. Saint Exupery, veteran of over 13,000 flying hours, was grounded last March by a U.S. Army Air Forces officer because of age, was later put back into his plane by a decision of Lieut. General Ira C. Eaker, flew some 15 flak-riddled missions in a P-38 before his disappearance...
Richard Wright, best-selling Negro novelist (Native Son) said to a New York Herald Tribune reporter that he was "ejected" from the Communist Party in 1937. Said he: "There was an irreconcilable gap. . . . I do not regard the Communists today as effective instruments for social change. . . . [They] have a terrible lot to learn about people. . . . What it amounts to is that they are narrow-minded, bigoted, intolerant and frightened of new ideas...
...Gasoline" said the signs in the French shopwindows. As the Nazis dashed toward Paris, French soldiers lay by the roadside, nursing bloody feet which were blistered by retreat. Most of them were beaten men, but some drunken soldiers shouted: "We're waiting for the Bodies!" Meanwhile Simone, Novelist Feuchtwanger's 16-year-old Burgundian heroine, lay in her attic room poring over the story of St. Joan of Arc. The Maid of Orleans, Simone read, had heard mysterious "voices" bidding her save France by fighting the invader. Soon Simone began to hear the voice of her dead radical...