Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...last truly universal man," a committee of U.S. citizens (honorary chairman: Herbert Hoover) arranged to take over the mountain resort of Aspen, Colo, for a three-week bicentennial festival. They hired the Minneapolis Symphony to play, and assembled a distinguished roster of speakers, including Poet Stephen Spender, Novelist Ludwig Lewisohn, Playwright Thornton Wilder, Alsatian Philosopher-Missionary Albert Schweitzer, and Spain's Philosopher-Teacher-Statesman José Ortega y Gasset...
Since then he has lived the full life as pastor, radiorator, lecturer, world traveler, ardent prohibitionist, novelist and editor. Franklin Roosevelt once called him "America's Spiritual Ambassador of Good Will." Last week, at 64, vigorous, bush-browed Dan Poling slackened the pace just a little. After 24 years in office, he announced his retirement as president of the International (i.e., North American) Society of Christian Endeavor (membership: 2,000,000). But he would still keep his jobs as president of the World's Christian Endeavor Union (4,000,000 members), chaplain of the Chapel of the Four...
...Earthy Novelist Erskine (Tobacco Road) Caldwell flew back from a two month junket on which he tried to use up some of his frozen royalties in twelve European countries. He liked Italy best, but thought the natives were getting fed up with U.S. visitors. Reported Caldwell: Rome is so overrun with the Hollywood crowd that street peddlers who sidle up to tourists with furtive propositions no longer peddle postcards or addresses. Now they whisper: "I've got a script...
...Novelist Rand sees it, the creative individual (Gary Cooper as a daring young architect) is threatened with extinction by the collective herd (Raymond Massey and Robert Douglas as the publisher and architecture critic of a powerful New York newspaper). Though photographed as if it were a titanic struggle between conflicting principles, what follows turns out to be a tussle between neurotic pinheads. At one point. Cooper dynamites several blocks worth of a housing project to assert his artistic integrity. Blowing hot & cold on Cooper's ambitions, Massey finally puts a bullet through his own head after commissioning Cooper...
...Novelist Arnow, who was born in Kentucky and taught school in Pulaski County for six years, handles the talk of the hill people and evokes a picture of the countryside with the sureness of Elizabeth Madox Roberts. There is no question of her success in picturing the profane and pious old people, the backwoodsmen with fine old names like Ballew and Hull, the proud parents who gave their children names like Alben W. Barkley Tiller, the farmers working on the WPA or in the automobile factories of Detroit...