Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Keys of the Kingdom (20th Century-Fox), A. J. Cronin's best-selling novel, will use Gary-Cooperish Stage Actor Gregory Peck as the Scottish missionary to China. Father Arthur O'Hara, a genuine missionary, will furnish technical advice. For release this summer...
...strange central character to write about, a man whose only significance is spiritual. Says Maugham: "I am of the earth, earthy; I can only admire the radiance of such a rare creature, I cannot step into his shoes." Finally he confesses, "If I call this a novel it is only because I don't know what else to call...
Confessional. Maugham disarmingly calls attention to the fact that he is making his first attempt to write a novel about Americans: "I don't think one can ever really know any but one's own countrymen. ... I do not pretend that [the characters] are American as Americans see themselves; they are American seen through an English...
Four cops, warned in advance, followed chubby Critic Bernard DeVoto into a Cambridge, Massachusetts bookstore. So did a Civil Liberties Union lawyer. Then followed a neatly planned little routine. Critic DeVoto asked for a copy of Lillian Smith's Southern novel, Strange Fruit, which had been suppressed by Boston booksellers and banned by Cambridge's police chief for mixing a stubby Anglo-Saxon word into a serious study of miscegenation (TIME, April 10). For his $2.75, Benny DeVoto got a copy of the book and some strange fruit of his own seeking: a court summons for trafficking...
Until the Book-of-the-Month Club chose Blessed Are the Meek, Mme. Kossak was unknown in the U.S., though famed in Poland for her historical novels. Now that her husband, a colonel in the Polish Army, is in a German concentration camp, her whereabouts is hidden from the world, but her publishers, refugees in Manhattan, have republished in English her latest novel. Translator is Rulka Langer, Polish author of The Mermaid and the Messerschmitt (TIME...