Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...novel, though not unwelcome, development, was the emergence of Paul Champion, the Crimson's sterling defensive guard, as high scorer of the evening with 22 points. Runners-up were Johnny Gantt and Lou Decsi with 21 and 16 markers respectively...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Charles Monroe Sheldon, 88, kinetic Congregationalist pastor who wrote In His Steps, alltime best-selling novel (25 million copies in 21 languages); in Topeka, Kans. Thanks to careless copyrighting, In His Steps, the story of a preacher who made his life an imitation of Christ's, brought its author a mere...
...brink of decadence, and declined among the dissensions, rapes, assassinations, and revolutionary plots of his children, then sought and found his God at last-is one of mankind's archetypical legends. Miss Schmitt has chosen to tell it not as a historical or Biblical but a psychological novel. In this task she suffers from a serious handicap: as a novelist, she is not very adventurous; as a psychologist, not very interesting...
Josephine (Now in November) Johnson's first novel since 1937 is a study in passive, helpless anguish. Its subject: the cold fear, the ultimate spiritual paralysis, which lovelessness can create. Its victim: a shy, adopted child named Edith...
...author obviously desires it to be, or just a nice little melodrama spoiled by oversolemnity? A heroine so ready with tears, who walks among flowers "almost crushed with their perfection," is annoying as well as sympathetic, and is perhaps just not worth taking seriously enough to write a whole novel about...