Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publicity handouts often bear the names of Comedian Zero Mostel, Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Dancer Sono Osato, Boogie-Woogie Artist Hazel Scott, Harmonica Virtuoso Larry Adler, Radio Writer Norman Corwin, Composer Earl Robinson, Conductor Rudolph Ganz, Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Novelist Thomas Mann. And ICCASP's stable of talent also embraces college professors, atomic scientists, advertising writers, book critics, and coveys of ballet dancers-classic or modern...
...Hardheaded. Despite these somewhat vague attachments of some of its members, ICCASP nevertheless has some hardheaded political thinkers and seasoned politicians who know what they are driving for. Best-selling novelist Howard Fast (Citizen Tom Paine, The American), who writes for the Communist Daily Worker and New Masses, writes ICCASP's handouts. Jimmy Roosevelt was once its executive director for the West Coast at a reputed $25,000 a year; but he broke with the Committee over the left v. far left wrangle in California politics (TIME, July 29) and is now the chairman of the less turbulent California...
...Slav Congress in Manhattan next month: Alexander Yevdokimovich Korneichuk and his wife, Colonel Wanda Wasilewska of the Red Army. He is one of Russia's leading dramatists (Front, Death of a Squadron, Truth) and a member of the Supreme Soviet; she is a former Polish (now Soviet) novelist (The Rainbow), head (during the war) of the Union of Polish Patriots in Russia...
Married. Olivia de Havilland, 30, British-born cinemactress (Anthony Adverse, Captain Blood), sister of Cinemactress Joan Fontaine; and Marcus Goodrich, 48, screen writer, novelist (bestseller Delilah); she for the first time, he for the fifth; in Wilton, Conn...
Hawk-nosed Novelist Vardis Fisher spends twelve hours a day working his farm in Idaho's Snake River country, four hours a night whipping out impassioned prose (Intimations of Eve, Children of God, etc.). But he is never too busy to argue. Five years ago Publisher Margaret Cobb Ailshie (TIME, Aug. 5) let contentious Vardis Fisher argue the case for isolationism in her interventionist Boise Idaho Statesman. Before she knew it, she had a new drawing card...