Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Deans of the Law, Business and Medical schools will address their graduates at a series of luncheons before the meeting draws to an end Sunday night with Pulitzer prize winning novelist John P. Marquand and President Conant addressing the final meeting...
...list of signers included such perennial prophets of the Communist faith as Novelist Howard (Citizen Tom Paine) Fast and a whole bevy of Daily Worker staffers: ex-New Masses Editor Joseph North, his onetime Executive Editor A. B. Magil, Ben Field. It included at least one former Communist Party official: V. J. Jerome (real name: Isaac Romain...
...years as a student, a researcher for the Institute of Pacific Relations, and a journalist. A prewar Herald Tribune correspondent in Moscow and Berlin, he was a deputy director of OWI's overseas operations, a fellow traveler on Willkie's "one world" flight, and translator of Soviet Novelist Konstantin Simonov's Days and Nights...
...poor wretch" who was born in Paris in 1900 was to become Novelist Julian Green, an expatriate American who has written his moody psychological novels in French. Sister Anne Green, who never married, has also spent her life in France but writes her deft, frothy novels in English. With engaging candor and none of the moodiness of her famed brother, she tells in With Much Love the story of the family's first 21 years in France. Few books of family reminiscences have been written with such obvious joy and communicate so much of it to the reader...
...wanted to know about Oscar Wilde, who had just completed his prison sentence in England for immorality and could be seen drinking his absinthe at the Cafe de la Paix. Papa advised that they be enlightened in 20 years. Eleanor, the loveliest one, first accepted, then jilted English Novelist Arnold Bennett. Writes Anne: "A chit was throwing over a good heart, a fine brain and an emerald ring, all belonging to a literary gentleman of some prominence, aged thirty-nine...