Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Martin Flavin, for his American novel Journey in the Dark...
Then, says Dr. Adrian, "an electrical survey could scarcely avoid giving some entirely novel information about what is happening in the brain when we think or solve problems or decide what...
Died. Humphrey Cobb, 44, author of 1935's best-selling war story (Paths of Glory); of coronary thrombosis; in Port Washington, L.I. His best-seller was his only published novel, and was written out of boredom with his Manhattan advertising job. A terse, heart-rending account of a sadistic French general who ordered his own men decimated after a hopeless attack had failed, it was adapted for the stage, got him a $1,000-a-week job in Hollywood. That also bored him, and at his death he was working for a Manhattan advertising agency...
Millions of young Americans have been through it - months of distressing uncertainty, expecting a draft call, finding it was not imminent, hearing that it was, etc. - until they are finally put out of their misery by induction. But this is the first self-pitying novel about the experience...
There is indeed nothing novel in the actual finger-printing process for V-12 men who smudge on the dotted line for monthly base pay minus deductions, but in the line of more advanced studies experts in the numerous precinct stations stand ready to demonstrate this and similar scientific police methods...