Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Solider-looking of the two was Old Haven, a 559-page novel laid in a small fishing village on the North Sea. Despite its wholly Dutch characters and background, it is only semi-Dutch. Author Dejong, a slight, redheaded, 33-year-old ex-bank clerk, soda-jerker, gravedigger and onetime student at five U. S. universities, left Holland when he was twelve, has spent most of his life in Grand Rapids, Mich. Old Haven tells the story of a picturesque Dutch clan of builders and landowners, headed by a hardheaded, wise old dame who defies strait-laced Calvinist townsfolk...
Jane Eyre (Sun. 8 p.m., CBS). Actor-Producer Orson Welles adapts Charlotte Brontë's novel for radio drama...
...autobiography, this unexplored coincidence still held good. Son of a Bulgarian village sage, stocky, fierce-looking, congenial Author Christowe, now 40, is known as a contributor to the defunct, highbrow Dial, author of two well-received books, Heroes and Assassirts, an account of Macedonian terrorists, and Mara, a novel. Least pretentious of immigrant autobiographies, and one of the best-written, This Is My Country is a simple chronicle that contrasts particularly with the excitable, brooding record of Louis Adamic's Americanization...
...despondency. Author Stone also tries to trace London's talent to his father, who was, he says, not John London but an eccentric, intelligent astrologer named Chaney. Whoever his father was, London spent such an adventurous youth that his stored-up experiences were good for 16 years of novel writing. He had been an oyster pirate in San Francisco Bay, a sourdough in Alaska, a sailor, barber, patrolman, tramp, marcher in Coxey's Army, when at 23 his stones won national attention. Thereafter his life settled to its pattern: he was always broke, although he made...
Tender-skinned readers nevertheless found his novel as painful an experience as having themselves tattooed...