Word: novelized
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When CBS invited him to broadcast the news, as a fill-in for Commentator H. V. Kaltenborn, he put the mystery novel aside, hurried to Manhattan...
...years on the Times let Davis develop his tastes. He covered the Ford peace ship, the Dempsey-Gibbons fight, the Harding arms conference, the famed Zev-Papyrus match race, wrote everything from editorials to whimsy. By 1924, when his third novel was published, he was ready to try free-lancing as a steady thing. He wrote adventure and boy-meets-girl stories for the slick-paper magazines, essays on literature, politics and realpolitik for Harper's and Saturday Review of Literature...
...summer of 1939, with World War II only days away, Davis was at his summer home in Mystic, Conn., writing the last chapters of a mystery novel for the Saturday Evening Post. He was a respected, reasonably successful author. He had his summer home, and a winter apartment on Manhattan's Morningside Heights, a wide circle of literary and bridge-playing friends. He also had the free lancer's occupational psychosis: worry over when the well would...
...weather in Private William Saroyan's private world was wonderful: The Human Comedy, his first novel, was the new Book-of-the-Month Club bestseller; The Human Comedy, his first movie, had a blinding première on Broadway; Carol Marcus, striking 18-year-old actress (in two Saroyan shows), daughter of Bendix Aviation Vice President Charles Marcus, girl friend of Gloria Vanderbilt de Cicco, became Mrs. William Saroyan. They were married in Dayton, where the 34-year-old groom writes training films for the Signal Corps. The ceremony was quiet: so was the unpredictable playwright, who shattered...
...these words British Commando Officer Lieut. Colonel Robert Henriques describes the opening of the Commando raid which is the core of his unusual novel. As in his earlier No Arms, No Armour (TIME Jan. 15, 1940), Colonel Henriques' interest goes far beyond the surface mechanics of British army life...