Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist Thomas Mann, 72, carried his arm in a sling but was nearly mended now: he had stumbled on a neighbor's stairs in Pacific Palisades (Calif.) and fractured his left shoulder...
...Clifton Fadiman and John P. Marquand. They have bought a salable name (Miss Pinckney's earlier Three O'Clock Dinner was a bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts scrappily with the question of good & evil, is as far from the intent and purpose of Moralist Hawthorne as it is from literature-a considerable distance...
George Bluestone '47 and Paul I. Sparer '49 won first prizes of $50 and John Hedges '48, Hugh M. Hill '48, and Francis S. MacNutt '46 won second prizes of $25 in the finals of the Boylston Speaking Contest at Paine Hall last night. The contest was judged by novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26, Lewis Perry, former principle of Exeter Academy, and Major-General Sherman Miles, U.S.A...
...Novelist Walter D. Edmonds '26, Lewis Perry, former principal of Phillips Exeter Academy, and Major-General Sherman Miles, U.S.A. (Ret.) will judge the oratorical efforts of Robert K. Bingham '48, George Bluestone '49, Robert M. Cipes '50, Robert L. Fischells '50, Bryant W. Haliday '49, John L. Hedges '48, Hugh M. Hill '48, Francis S. MacNutt '46, Lucian C. Parlate, '50, and Paul I. Sparer...
...collection of short stories which won the ?500 Somerset Maugham Award in England. Under the terms laid down by Donor Maugham, the British government permits the winner to spend his prize money in foreign travel - and that privilege, in currency-tight England, is a prize in itself. Novelist Evelyn Waugh acidly predicted that "elderly" writers would compete even if it meant "forging of birth certificates, dyeing of whiskers and lifting of faces. To what parodies of experimental styles will we not push our experienced pens...