Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There, six weeks ago, the executive committee of the R.P.F. held the most fateful meeting in its brief history. Most of the twelve men were smoking and the air was a thick blue haze. De Gaulle smokes like a chimney in moments of stress; so do his political theorist, Novelist Andre Malraux (Man's Fate, Man's Hope} , and his chief administrator, swarthy, bespectacled Jacques Soustelle. Charles de Gaulle said, "Messieurs, je vous écoute" (Gentlemen, I am listening...
...said" or by quoting anonymous "sources." The law: "Divorcing one's self from a story by attributing it to others is not ... a defense in libel." Authors who preface their novels with the stock disclaimer-"Any resemblance ... is purely coincidental"-are also kidding themselves. Even a novelist who invents a wholly imaginary character can be sued, if a real person proves that the public could reasonably assume that he was being described. Says Wittenberg: "The question is not so much who was aimed...
Married. Robert John Herwig, 32, first husband of Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor (who became interested in Restoration England while student-husband Robert was writing a thesis on it); and Nadine Hegeman, 20, University of California student; he for the second time, she for the first; in Las Vegas...
...Herwigs will live apart in California-as Novelist Winsor and new husband Artie Shaw are required to-until the Herwig-Winsor divorce becomes final Dec. 9. Neither the Herwigs nor the Shaws are legally married in California...
...seem a modest achievement. Miss Stein starts the fun & games by supposing that Grant had become a religious leader, Wright a painter, James a general and Washington a novelist. In defense of her little game, she apparently fetches some reasons from afar: Grant's first name was Hiram (an Old Testament name) but he dropped it in favor of his middle name, Ulysses (a soldier's); Wright, like Miss Stein's favorite modern painter, Picasso, invented contraptions that gave people a new sense of being alive; James planned his novels as a good general plans an operation...