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...look upon the morning milk as one wholesome symbol of purity in an otherwise sullied world may not feel quite the same after reading this book. A long, character-full novel of rancor, frustration, and sex in a commercial dairy, by Sergeant Josiah E. Greene, 34, ex-writer of pulp thrillers and children's stories, Not in Our Stars has won the $2,500 Macmillan Centenary Award. With an impressively technical knowledge of modern milk-producing, a smooth, unpretentious narrative style, and a good ear for dialogue, Author Greene makes his managers, drivers, barn boys and farm wives real...
...Harvard Forest at Petersham, Mass., will be the scene of a new type of course for the next ten days. For the first time in any University, a course in forest aerial photography is being offered to timber operators, foresters, and representatives of pulp and paper companies...
Belgian-born, 42-year-old Georges Simenon (real name: Georges Sim) is one of the world's most prolific authors. Before turning to "serious" fiction (of which The Shadow Falls is supposedly an example) he wrote 300-odd pulp novels and thrillers, including the stories which made his Inspector Maigret one of fiction's most famed detectives. But last spring the gumshoe was on the other foot. Sleuthhound Simenon was snapped up by Paris police and indicted. The charge: "intelligence with the enemy" during the German occupation...
...Howard made her living as a pulp writer for ten years. But since marrying and settling down in Winter Haven, Fla. in 1931, her total literary income has been $6.50-for an article in a trade magazine on her favorite thesis of "If you can't write what you want, why write at all?" Her double bonanza did not overwhelm her. Said she: "You never know. I had a feeling this might be my year for making...
Prolific Mother. At 50, with no pre vious experience, she began to pour out volume after volume of remunerative fiction and travelogue. Most of the characters she introduced were old friends and acquaintances: "Of course," she said airily, "I always pulp (them) before serving them up. You would never recognize a pig in a sausage." This was no consolation to the American public, which foamed at the sprightly invective and caricature in Mrs. Trollope's first book, Domestic Man ners of the Americans. The book was a financial success, but not sufficiently so to relieve the author...