Word: reback
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sickly Author Caldwell went on writing ''novels, essays and poetry by the ream," until she became almost blind. Recently her husband, Marcus Reback, an immigration officer, carted out the last "bushel-buckets" of his wife's discarded, unpublished works and burned them in the incinerator of their beautiful Eggertsville, N.Y. home. In the conflagration, Author Caldwell estimates, were some 140 novels ("they didn't burn well...
...does no research ("it would spoil the fun"), picks up her general information about tycoons and industry from "movies and . . . plants I visited." In more difficult business problems-"for instance, when one man must do something to injure the other"-she consults her husband, who studied law. Mr. Reback, whom his wife calls "Tootsie," is a reader of the Wall Street Journal, and "he puts it all in a paragraph. Often I don't in the least understand what it means, but I break up that paragraph and scatter it through the book...
Author Bromfield and Authoress Caldwell (British-born Mrs. Marcus Reback of Buffalo) are alike in two respects: both have many readers; both have very theatrical ideas of the world. Their latest novels reveal a further likeness. Both authors appear to have thought that a lush subject for fiction would be the regeneration of fabulously rich Americans by war shock...
...Lester Adran Mount and Samuel Reback examined him, found him "pleasant, placid and cooperative." Aside from his spells, he was in perfect health, showed "high average general intelligence." Nobody in the Institute had ever seen or read or heard tell of anything like...
Last week in the Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, Drs. Mount and Reback described the dance, christened it "paroxysmal choreoathetosis" (from the Greek choreia, meaning dance, and athetos, not still). Their patient told them that his great-grandfather had spells over 100 years ago, had passed them on to 27 descendants, now spread all over...