Word: saroyan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ADVENTURES OF WESLEY JACKSON (285 pp.) - William Saroyan - Harcourt, Brace...
...those who did not, remained a moot point. Between the acts the spectators, if bewitched, were also pretty bothered and bewildered. Said one first-nighter solemnly: "It's something you have to digest." Said another: "I don't try to understand it; I'm an old Saroyan man myself." But on at least one point a dowager was quite firm: "The love interest is very dull, indeed very dull, certainly very dull indeed...
...William Saroyan, once U.S. letters' Public Show-off No. 1, had become a Garbo for privacy. Since release from the Army last September he had cut nary a public caper-not even last January 11 when Wife Carol bore him their unpublicized second child, first daughter...
...real life"), H. G. Wells and Billy Rose ("I would rather be labeled 'dwarfish' than not be mentioned in your splendid magazine at all") - Bernard Baruch and Franklin Roosevelt, Walter Winchell, Rudy Vallee, Robert L. Ripley, Harold Ickes, Bing Crosby, Walter Lippmann, Bob Hope, Henry Wallace, William Saroyan, Edgar Bergen, Admiral Nimitz, Ernie Pyle, Salvador Dali, Elmer Davis, Thomas Mann...
...clearly the occasion, and not the play - Ibsen's Peer Gynt - that made tickets scarcer than hen's eggs and fetched everybody from Noel Coward in specs to G.I. William Saroyan. But Lady Colefax's typical suspiration, "If one's friends will put on Peer Gynt, one must see it," changed to enthusiasm as Ibsen's murky poetic drama, in a fresh translation by Norman Ginsbury, took on pace and clarity. When Peer made love to fat, giggling Anitra, the audience whooped. When he was crowned Emperor in a madhouse, everybody got goose pimples. With...