Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Postman Always Rings Twice, at Loew's State and Orpheum. M-G-M's treatment of James M. Cain's novel about ham-and-eggs sex in California...
Even couched in the metaphor of a novel, history is best written from an eminence of years, and Sinclair's vehicle is now pulling abreast of its own times. In his latest, Sinclair adds little to the bare newspaper stories but a bushy growth of prose and an air of implausibility...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
Clio, Muse of History, is just a girl who can't say no. She has succumbed for the seventh time in six years to the same man-Upton Sinclair. But in their latest encounter, Volume VII of his novel-history of the 20th Century, 67-year-old Sinclair's powers seem to be failing...
Readers-and Mark-discover the awful truth about Corinne in the last few pages of this new novel by Niven Busch (Duel in the Sun; They Dream of Home).* Mark and Corinne have top billing in the book, but Author Busch attempts to show what was happening in the lives of a dozen different people (including an old diplomat, a top sergeant, a fighting liberal) during V-J day's wild rejoicing. Day of the Conquerors is not so deep as a well nor so wide as a psychiatrist's door, but it is fast-paced, triple-gaited...