Word: seager
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cedric Seager and John Bruce Heath, promoters of the Financial Observer, had in mind neither of the paper's models when they agitated it last year. Briton and American, they had in mind the revered London Economist. They hired Novelist Reginald Wright Kauffman (The House of Bondage) for editor, transferred him from the Washington Post to the Observer's Manhattan office. Editor Kauffman appointed as his general manager the Post's General Manager Eugene MacLean. Executive Editor of the Observer is Columbia University's economist, Ralph West Robey...
...selection of tales as he has ever edited. Notable this year more than in the past is a proportionate preponderance of young writers who have already made names for themselves. Sally Benson contributes a whimsical piece called "The Overcoat," and our friends Erskine Caldwell, Morley Callaghan, Paul Horgan, Allan Seager, William Saroyan and Thomas Wolfe all come in once apiece. None of this galaxy has written what this reviewer considers the piece de resistance of the collection, however, which is a story called "The Party Next Door" by Ernost Brace, first appearing in the magazine "Story...
...21st collection finds Editor O'Brien viewing the future of the short story with profound alarm. The year 1934 was a bad one, in which only 200 stories were found worthy of three stars, but it was "a notable" year for new writers, producing Dorothy McCleary, Allan Seager and William Saroyan. Editor O'Brien finds the short story threatened by the developing political interests of editors and critics, utters a dark warning against Fascism - Fascism from the left as well as from right-and complains that there are now too many little magazines...