Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...choice of Venezuela's men & women for president of the republic was Novelist Rómulo Gallegos, a founder in 1941 of Acción Democrática, which has controlled the government since the swift revolution of 1945. His victory over his nearest rival, 31-year-old Rafael Caldera, candidate of the conservative COPEI (Committee for Independent Political Organization), had been forecast from the start...
...many, the victory of 63-year-old Novelist Gallegos was not as significant as the orderly manner of his election. The government of Provisional President Romulo Betancourt, confident of Acción Democrática,'s strength, had taken pains to make the voting fair, and even the opposition was hard put to find grounds for charging fraud. Previous presidents had been chosen by Congress. Gallegos was elected by direct popular ballot, and every Venezuelan over 18 had the right to vote...
...unwelcome guests: Novelist Howard (Freedom Road) Fast, an editor of the Communist New Masses; Communist Gerhart Eisler, reputed U.S. Comintern boss; Arnold Johnson, legislative director of the Communist Party; Carl Marzani, dismissed by the State Department for concealing his Communist card...
...Charles Dickens' illustrator, Robert Seymour, had shot himself after finishing only half his sketches for the Pickwick Papers. A few days later, with some sample sketches tucked hopefully under his arm, a stout, bumbling, bemonocled young man called on Mr. Dickens to ask for the vacant job. The novelist took a quick look at the sketches and shook his head. "Had it not been for that unfortunate blight which came over my artistical existence," declared William Makepeace Thackeray many years later, "I should have tried to be not a writer, but a painter or designer of pictures...
...Cockadoodleodoodle!" After the "unfortunate blight," Thackeray began writing art criticism. His nom de plume, Michael Angelo Titmarsh, became a feared and hated name among Britain's painters. Even when he had become a novelist and was rolling in royalties ("?10,000 - Cock-adoodleodoodle"), he was still "bitten with my old mania...