Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...advised Argentina's Novelist-Critic Max Dickmann last week after four months spent in the U.S. at the invitation of the State Department. Novelist Dickmann, 41, had earned the right to advise. Noted for his novels of Argentine life, he has long been a translator of American books, long a student of U.S. mores...
Last week, too, the University of Chicago gave the best books notion its greatest merchandising improvement since the idea originally occurred around 1915 to Columbia's Musician-Novelist John ("Roaring Jack") Erskine. The Encyclopaedia Britannica, owned by the University of Chicago (TIME, Feb. 1), earmarked $400,000 to prepare the Hutchins Edition of approximately 100 great books. The University's Vice President William Burnett Benton called this "the backfire approach in bringing educational ideas to the public against the invested interests of education." The backfire is scheduled to reach the public...
...Book. Readers of Retreat from Rostov found Novelist Hughes's mid-Oklahoma notion of Russia and the war a view of uninhibited proportions. The novel was a Russian rodeo of heroes, heroines, Nazi villains, Don Cossacks, foreign correspondents, soldiers, civilians, enough snow to bury an army, enough melodrama to burn out every fuse in Hollywood...
...Type and High Jinks. Novelist Llewellyn apparently intended to do for London Cockney Mott what James Joyce did for Dubliner Bloom in Ulysses. Then he changed his mind, reverted to melo dramatic people and situations, but kept the stream-of-consciousness style and some phraseological high jinks...
...Author. Novelist Llewellyn is more interesting than his hero. His full name is Richard David Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd, and he is so professionally Welsh that a map of Wales is engraved on his cigarette case. Llewellyn wears a big ruby ring, foppish suits, tight-waisted overcoats with outsize boutonnieres...