Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Says a Cambridge adage: "Banned in Boston is the trademark of a good book." Last fortnight Strange Fruit (TIME, March 20), Lillian Smith's controversial novel about Southern racial problems, miscegenation and lynching, joined the long list of Boston's hall-marked books.* A policeman had read some of it and was shocked. "The boldest indecent passages I have ever seen," said Boston's Police Commissioner Thomas F. Sullivan. The disturbing passages, he explained, were shown him by a father who had bought Strange Fruit as a present for his daughter in the WAVES. Said...
...Specialists concluded that he had worried himself into gastric ulcers as WPAdministrator. Mayo's removed a portion of the Hopkins' stomach, doubted his chances of recovery. He suffered on, somehow. Then, in 1938, the President called in Army & Navy doctors, who experimented for a year with novel drugs. When Hopkins finally pulled through, no one was certain which drug-if any-had turned the trick. (That was WPA's toughest year, when Scripps-Howard Reporter Tom Stokes won a Pulitzer prize for exposing the use of the relief vote in re-electing Kentucky's Alben Barkley...
...Hecht's most controversial novel, A Jew in Love (TIME, Jan. 26, 1931), was roundly denounced as anti-Semitic by many readers...
This book is called a novel about St. Francis of Assisi, but it is not so much a religious tale as a picture of the first two decades of the 13th Century. It is an historical tapestry into which is woven the story of how Francis, by his fabulous simplicity, got what he wanted both from the Pope in Rome and the infidel Sultan of Egypt, of how a tough and worldly French knight became King of Jerusalem against his will, of how thousands of the children of Christendom strangely vanished from their homes forever (on the Children...
Professor F.O. Matthlessen's month-long search for a test case on the unofficial banning of the book "Strange Fruit" was climaxed Tuesday when Cambridge police confiscated a copy of the novel sold by Abraham Isenstadt of the University Law Book Exchange to Bernard De Voto, prominent American author...