Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This peace conference of the mind had not been called by any government. It was largely organized by Marcel Raymond, a Geneva university professor, and Swiss Musician Ernst-Alexandre Ansermet. Present were delegates from France (Catholic Writer Georges Bernanos, Socialist Writer Jean Guéhenno), Italy (Socialist Novelist Ignazio Silone), Hungary (Marxist Critic George Lukacs), Germany (Existentialist Karl Jaspers), Switzerland (Philosopher Denis de Rougemont), Britain (Poet Stephen Spender) and others...
Married. Christopher G. La Farge, 48, gangling poet-novelist (Hoxsie Sells His Acres, The Sudden Guest), grandson of Artist John, son of Architect C. Grant, brother of Author Oliver; and Violet Amory Loomis, 28; both for the second time; in Marion, Mass...
Home Sweet Homicide (20th Century-Fox), based on a Craig Rice whodunit, is the carefree story of a mystery novelist-widow (Lynn Bari) whose three crime-conscious children happily solve a neighborhood murder...
HARDY THE NOVELIST-Lord David Cecil-Bobbs-Merrill...
Lord David feels that for Thomas Hardy this time has now safely elapsed-"the world he lived in is as much a part of vanished history as the world of Queen Elizabeth." Hardy the Novelist is the first important study in its field since Edmund Blunden's Thomas Hardy. Composed of a series of lectures delivered at Oxford (Lord David, 44, youngest son of the Marquess of Salisbury, is a Fellow of New College), it lacks the polished style and brilliance that made Author Cecil's The Young Melbourne (TIME, Aug. 28, 1939) one of the finest biographies...