Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among present-day Bates disciples are Mrs. Bates and Optometrist Harold Peppard of Manhattan. Novelist Aldous Huxley was so much helped by the Bates method that he wrote a book about it (The Art of Seeing...
Potatoes Collect Poison. When Retinger first went to Kent to visit Conrad, the rosy literary agent J. B. Pinker was still keeping the novelist just one jump ahead of starvation. Conrad, then a little over 50, "even to the old-fashioned sort of brown greatcoat . . . seemed, indeed, a typical Polish landowner from the Ukraine." In Conrad's decaying Cadillac, Retinger got his first taste of the driving which horrified Conrad's family...
...British Army units in the United Kingdom now have an obligatory, weekly religious instruction period. Called the Padre's Hour, it was planned by Army chaplains at the behest of handsome, youngish Major General Frederick Arthur Montague ("Boy") Browning, commander of Britain's airborne troops, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...
...commemorate the centenary of the birth of Henry James, noted novelist and essayist, the Houghton Rare Book Libray has drawn from its own extensive collections and those of College alumni many of the author's scarce and valuable books and manuscripts, and prepared one of the most complete exhibitions ever shown of Jame's unpublished and printed material...
Sued for Divorce. By Novelist Katherine Ursula Tuowle Parrott Greenwood Wildberg Schermerhorn (ExWife, Next Time We Live), 40: Army Air Forces Captain Alfred Coster Schermerhorn, 45, her fourth; in Miami. She faces trial this week on charges of aiding desertion, harboring a deserter, undermining the morale of a member of the armed forces (TIME...