Word: novelists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Novelist Sartre also found decay in the city of skyscrapers. "They are already historical monuments, witnesses of a past epoch. . . . I cannot view them without sadness: they speak of a time when we thought the last war had been fought, when we believed in peace. Already they are slightly neglected; tomorrow, perhaps, they will be demolished. . . . To build them in the first place required a faith we no longer feel...
...Mahler's widow, now living in Beverly Hills, Calif., published a biography of her husband (Gustav Mahler, Memories and Letters; Viking, $5). She first wrote her book seven years ago, published it in Amsterdam in 1940. Shortly afterwards she escaped to the U.S. with her third husband, Austrian Novelist Franz (Song of Bernadette) Werfelt† whom she met in 1917 when he was in the Czech army, married in 1918. Like many another Mahler partisan, Alma Mahler admitted that she wasn't always able to understand Mahler's music...
...Author. Novelist Ward was born in Fairmount, Ind., has been married 18 years. The Snake Pit is her fourth novel. She has finished the first draft of a fifth novel and the outline of a sixth. Says her husband: "Mary Jane isn't happy unless she has a novel under...
...handful of British and U.S. intellectuals a month ago petitioned Chief Justice Sir Geoffrey Lawrence at the Niirnberg trials for a question ing of Nazi prisoners, to clear Trotsky of the charge of dealing with them. Among the U.S. signers: Socialist Leader Norman Thomas, Critic Edmund Wilson, Novelist James Farrell. Among the British signers: H. G. Wells, Arthur Koestler...
...Sample (an apostrophe to Stalin by the Soviet Union's late Novelist Alexey Tolstoy): Thou, bright sun of the nations, The unsinking sun of our times, And more than the sun, for the sun has no wisdom...