Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...final candidates for the Prize, Gide had been longest on the Academy's list. Runners-up: Benedetto Croce (81), Italian historian, philosopher and estheticist; T. S. Eliot (59), Anglo-Catholic poet and critic, who, unlike Gide, is an exponent of traditionalism; and François Mauriac (62), French novelist...
Died. Baroness Orczy (Mrs. Montague Barstow), 82, champagne-and-swordplay novelist whose foppish, daredevil hero, "The Scarlet Pimpernel," first appeared in 1905, reappeared in twelve subsequent novels and one book of short stories, was the heaviest single contributor to her fame (and a Riviera villa); in London...
...Novelist Woodruff, whose real name is Philip Mason, worked as a civil servant in India for 20 years, ending up as Joint Secretary of the Defense Department from 1944 to this year. E. M. Forster's Passage to India (1924), a novel in which certain types of British officials were treated with an irony amounting to loathing, has evidently been on his mind. He writes, in his foreword: "Perhaps I have been lucky in the people I have known and the visitors who write books after a six months' stay have been unlucky." This mild slap...
Forster, a profound, canny and better novelist, might be rash ; it would be rasher had not Woodruff written a fairly good novel himself...
Cervantes IV Centennial Series will roll into its fifth week of lectures and discussion today and Thursday, when audiences in the Institute of Geographical Exploration hear speeches on the immortal creator of Don Quixote by Lienhard Bergel of Queens College and novelist Ralph Bates...