Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Photo-History has a novel idea behind it. Editor-Publisher Richard Storrs Childs, a socialite young Yaleman, intends to devote 68 LIFE-sized pages each quarter to a thorough pictorial takeout of one current subject. Photo-History: I devoted itself to the Spanish Civil War. On its cover a squad of male & female Government Milicianos bang away across a valley of olive trees at their Rightist foes. Inside, the bloody story of the long, internecine struggle is graphically set forth in a series of montages of news-photographs, newspaper headlines, charts and maps. At 35?, 100,000 copies of Photo...
...Novel. To no one's amazement, Atlanta's tiny Margaret Mitchell got $1,000 for Gone With The Wind, fabulously successful first novel about the Civil War (TIME, July...
Fanchon was the creative brains of the outfit. She built her whole show around some novel production number, blending costumes and tunes to whatever the girls were doing. They came out on bicycles, skates and skis. They wore bunny costumes, appeared disguised as flowers, birds or animals. Fanchon & Marco, Inc. snowballed until theatres which had bought franchises from them became bankrupt and in order to keep units out they had to become theatre operators. Fanchon & Marco shrank from 52 units a year to two units a month...
...school, thought his classmates "a pretty decent bunch." Meeting them again ten years later, he wondered "what had turned the kids I'd played with into these sharp little wise guys . . . what had happened to Kipling?" I Can Get It for You Wholesale, Author Weidman's first novel, partly answers his question. The East Side Jews he writes about with such authority are almost enough to tie an old-fashioned U. S. stomach into Nazi knots. Manhattanites who brush elbows every day with loud, cheap slickers like Author Weidman's hero, who tells the tale himself...
...lunch yesterday we got talking about The Last Puritan. I was interested in hearing that Peter Alden in the novel was in many ways like Mr. Santayana's father; and though it is not true, as many have thought, that Santayana tried to reveal his own personality through Oliver and Mario still they do reflect a bit of his general character. It seems to me that Mr. Santayana, like Oliver, is deeply moral. Daub his philosophy what you will, there is always the moral flavor. It is this morality that bridges his materialism with his mysticism. But this...