Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famed Front Page Chicago press came to life, chased its tail and bayed bulletins. It intimidated the police, tried the case on Page One, manufactured a confession and imported Murder Novelist Craig Rice from California to worry over the accused. Readers jumped aboard with letters full of theories, shudders, lectures on psychology, morals and English usage. While psychiatrists candled the accused's head, the city focused on its ugly old Cook County jail. There in cell No. 59, husky, sullen, 17-year-old William Heirens sat with his head in his hands...
Born. To Carl Mydans, 38, LIFE photographer, and Shelley Mydans, 31, LIFE researcher, radio commentator and novelist (The Open City); after eight years of marriage: their first child, a son; in Manhattan. Name: Seth Anthony. Weight...
...remote generations," wrote another, Carl Sandburg. Ex-Secretary of War Newton D. Baker thought him "a genuinely great man"; so did Brand Whitlock, onetime U.S. Ambassador to Belgium; so did, and do, numberless others. The latest to unearth and praise the forgotten eagle is able, young (32), leftist Novelist Howard Fast (The Last Frontier, The Unvanquished, a New Masses assistant editor). Fast retells the John Peter Altgeld story in a fictionalized biography: The American, A Middle Western Legend...
...world's foremost Hardy libraries. Organizer of the collection is Carl J. Weber, 52, Roberts Professor of English 'Literature at Colby. For years Dr. Weber has been exploring the Hardy field, until he probably knows more of its little secrets than the great British poet-novelist himself ever knew...
...Novelist Howe's satire is not the final criticism of higher learning in the U.S., but it has its sting. Harvardmen will recognize the traits and the chatter. The Master of "Bromfield House," who enters on a card each new pun he divines in Finnegans Wake; the English department poet whose looks at least were once Keatsian; the Fogg Art Museum curator and his inseparable friends, young men of debonair malice; the publicity-seeking psychologist from the Midwest and his wife, resolutely unrepressed; and Dorothea's husband, John Calcott, a gentleman. Calcott, always well under control, stuns Dorothea...