Word: pulp
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After the Merriwell vein petered out, Gilbert Patten wrote pulp fiction, cinema scenarios, even tried publishing magazines of his own. He now lives in California, a hale, upstanding man of 74. He smokes cigarets (something Frank never did), reads Proust and Zola (of whom Frank never heard). Recently a publisher asked Author Patten to write a novel about Frank as a man of vigorous middle age, coping with the world of 1940. Result: Mr. Frank Merriwell, out this week...
...majority of big London dailies still make almost as much money as they ever did*-despite rationing, circulation allotment, soaring pulp prices (?26 IDS a ton as compared to a pre-war price of ?11 53, a current U. S. price of $50 per ton). The reasons...
This is a rather unusual situation for Arch Oboler, who is so anxious to hold his franchise as a prodigy that he admits only "roughly" to 31. Ever since he graduated from pulp writing to horror scripts five years ago, he has sedulously and successfully cultivated the notion that his out-rourings represent art of a very high order. A great wind-sawer at rehearsals, Director Oboler has worked with such lights as Nazimova, Bette Davis, considers himself a sort of Radio Reinhardt. Betimes he has ghostwritten a biography of the late Tex Rickard, recently adapted Escape for the screen...
Chief humiliator is Uncle Arthur Blake, Squire of Breetholm Manor, who takes his elder brother's by-blow into service, spends a futile year trying to break his spirit. Benjamin beats him to a pulp, boards a Boston ship, is marooned for seven years on a South Pacific paradise...
...last week there was new evidence that Dr. McClure had not been far off base. An investigator of the Duncan, B. C. Chamber of Commerce declared ships were putting out for Japan regularly, carrying pulp logs, which can be made into nitrocellulose (basis of explosives) just as easily as into rayon...