Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...think the responsibility of keeping the home full of love and comfort," said Novelist Hans Habe generously to a woman interviewer, "is at least as great as making a buck." The author of A Thousand Shall Fall did not mean, he hastened to add, that women should "just stay in the kitchen," but: "After all, somebody has to bring home the bacon and somebody has to cook it. But it is not a natural man's nature to bake the bacon...
Princess Elizabeth and Philip got an official worrier to take care of the grocery bills & so on. Appointed household controller and treasurer: Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, wartime Chief of Staff of the South East Asia Command, husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier...
...passion for "being" instead of "doing." Wrote he: "I can give ecstatic hours to worship or meditation but moments spent in original deed, such as putting a button upon my coat or cleansing my garden-walk of weeds, weigh very heavily upon my shoulders." Billy's grandson, Novelist Henry James Jr., never regretted that "the rupture with my grandfather's tradition and attitude was complete; we were never in a single case, I think, for two generations, guilty of a stroke of business...
...other U.S. family ever used its leisure to make so much intellectual and literary hay. In The James Family, Harvard Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen, Novelist James's ablest critic, has carefully pieced together "the biography . . . of a family of minds." "Autobiography" would be more accurate; most of the book consists of essays and letters (some never before printed) of Henry James Sr., sons William and Henry and little-known daughter Alice...
Writing for the screen, Author James Hilton once remarked, could do a man no harm. It might, he said, actually be a good thing, in keeping him keenly alive to story values. Novelist Hilton has spent the best part of a dozen years in Hollywood since Lost Horizon and Goodbye, Mr. Chips brought him fame and passage from England. Nothing So Strange (the title derives from Daniel Webster: "There is nothing so powerful as truth-and often nothing so strange") is certainly alive to story values-in the movie sense-besides being the Literary Guild selection for November...