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During the year: > Many writers, some despairing of interpreting war during a war, found themselves in uniform. Among them: Novelists James Gould Cozzens, Julian Green, Dashiell Hammett, Eric Knight, F. Van Wyck Mason; Playwrights Sidney Kingsley, Thornton Wilder, Laurence Stallings, William Saroyan; Poets Christopher La Farge, Karl Jay Shapiro, Harry Brown; ex-New Yorkers John Cheever, Geoffrey Hellman, Edward Newhouse; Autobiographer Vincent Sheean; Historian Samuel Eliot Morison; Newshawks Jimmy Cannon, Marion Hargrove, Hartzell Spence...
There are also: Sandburg, Saroyan, Wolfe, Dos Passes, Benet, Caldwell, Anderson, Frost. Robinson, Stevens, many others. Say the editors: "It is safe to say that from no other land than ours, within the limits of time we set ourselves, could there have been gathered together a body of writing so various and so vigorous, so serious in intent and so accomplished in craft...
Fort Ord went William Saroyan...
Inducted into the Army in San Francisco, William Saroyan, the drama's expositor of the throbbing heart. He immediately took the two-week furlough allowed him, went off duck hunting. Explained his family: he wanted to find out what it felt like to shoot something...
Magic (by G. K. Chesterton) and Hello, Out There (by William Saroyan) provide a double bill that prompts a single verdict. Both playwrights are much better at dialogue than drama. Saroyan's one-acter is more rewarding because it's simpler and more human. It tells of a guy (Eddie Dowling) in a small-town Texas jail who, before he is killed by a mob, talks through the bars of his cell with the jail's wispish slavey of a cook (Julie Haydon). Theirs is a brief rapprochement, a doomed romance, of two desperately lonely, anonymous souls...