Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist Stephen Longstreet has a grudge against lawyers and wrote The Gay Sisters to say so. In his novel the lawyers made off with most of the sisters' estate. Warner Bros., with no grudge at all against lawyers, are constrained to angle the picture's villainies some other way. They do it by suggesting that there is something vaguely unholy about owning real estate. The result is a picture whose ponderous pointlessness may well have been foreseen by prescient Miss Stanwyck on the first day's shooting. Said she to Cinemactor Brent, as the cameras prepared...
...fact, some readers may feel that Author Huie has mistaken his calling, that he is a better reporter than novelist...
...Novelist Fast, George Washington has the fascination of paradox, some of the strength of paradox resolved. The man who was to lead one of the most important
When the R.A.F. blitzed Lubeck last April, they destroyed a literary landmark, the ancestral home of emigre Novelist Thomas Mann. The Mann mansion was an 18th-Century rococo building popularly known as the Buddenbrookshaus after Mann's two-volume first novel, Buddenbrooks-a genealogical account of the rise & fall of a middle-class German family engaged in the Lubeck grain & feed trade...
...Novelist Mann, now comfortably housed in the California bungalow he built last year in suburban Los Angeles, took the destruction of Buddenbrookshaus philosophically. Said he in a special broadcast to Germany: "I remember Coventry and realize that everything must be paid back...