Word: serialist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Novelist James T. Farrell was probably feeling as unfunny as anybody. Fire had burned out his Manhattan apartment, and the dogged Studs Lonigan serialist faced the future practically barehanded. Up in flames (besides bales of literary notes, diaries, unpublished articles, critical essays, odds & ends); more than 50 unpublished short stories, mostly unfinished; about 100 pages of an unfinished novel (abandoned); a completed novelette, part of another; several hundred pages deleted from Farrell novels before publication; the original (unpublished) ending to Studs Lonigan; 400 pages from an unpublished sequel to Gas House McGinty...
Jules Remains, marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), was initiated into the august French Academy. He wore the traditional brocaded, green dress suit and the dress sword, but he skipped the traditional speech praising his predecessor. Predecessor Abel Bonnard had been kicked out of the Academy as a collaborationist...
...answer: whatever the others eat, since she rarely eats alone. Otherwise: fruit, coffee and one piece of toast for breakfast (after an eye opener of hot water and lemon juice) ; crackers and milk for lunch ; "I'm usually out to dinner." Jules Romaines, France's marathon serialist (Men of Good Will), clucked sadly at the writer's lot in the U.S., where "a writer ... is regarded as a specialist...
Married. Margaret Culkin Banning, 53, cozy, women's magazine serialist; and LeRoy Salsich, 64, Duluth, Minn., iron mine executive; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...grand jury in Miami studied the case of Serialist Ursula Parrott, charged with smuggling a soldier prisoner out of an Army stockade (TIME, Jan. 11), indicted her on three counts: "enciting" desertion from the U.S. Army, harboring a deserter, undermining the loyalty, discipline or morale of the armed forces. Conviction could carry a maximum penalty of 13 years' imprisonment or a $12,000 fine, or both...