Word: seifert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...three years, two rewritings-a period as hectic as one long house cleaning-Mrs. Gasparotti got it to come out right and sent it off under her maiden name, Elizabeth Seifert, to the Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine $10,000 novel contest. The day the news came she had won, she and the children "just sat down and looked at each other." That night her husband "didn't sleep a wink and I didn't get much rest myself...
Last week, with publication of Mrs. Gasparotti's prizewinner, Young Doctor Galahad (Dodd, Mead, $2.50), readers could admire not only her industry, but a good piece of popular fiction as well. The story of an idealistic young doctor in a small-town hospital-not Moberly, protests Author Seifert, although "I cannot get people to believe it"-Young Doctor Galahad is better than the usual run of popular fiction because of the author's earnestness...
...knows hospitals and doctors- before her marriage she worked in St. Louis hospitals-and she has definite ideas about the social role of the medical profession. Her hero's two love affairs are not very convincing and Author Seifert does not count too much on them herself. But when he is fighting small-town bigotry to introduce syphilis clinics, to put a murderous abortionist out of business, and, in a novel happy ending, to put across an experiment in socialized medicine, the story moves with a commendable and lively amateur freshness...
...Manhattan last fortnight, soft-voiced, grey-haired Elizabeth Seifert, winner of the $10,000 Dodd, Mead-Redbook Magazine novel contest, attended a big luncheon in her honor at which Hendrik Van Loon, Pearl Buck and other literary notables spoke, hurried back to her home town of Moberly, Mo. to start work on another novel. The wife of a refrigeration engineer (her real name is Mrs. John Gasparotti), Prize-winner Seifert won over 1,200 contestants with Young Doctor Galahad, a story of a small-town physician, planned to use her winnings to educate her four children. For herself she bought...
...Kelso. Wash., Albert Seifert. bank robber, was shot in the back and captured by C. A. Button, bank president, while he was escaping with a sack of silver. But C. A. Button was not the hero, said Robber Seifert. It was P. E. Federson. the cashier. "He outsmarted me when he put so much silver into the sack ... so heavy I couldn't run with...