Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week's third hero-Adolf Hitler, self-appointed foster-father of Europe's orphan minorities. Hero Hitler considered the message important enough to call an immediate conference at the chancellery with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring was ordered to cut short his vacation on the Italian Riviera. Then the familiar squeak of the tightening Nazi vise 'began to be heard in Slovakia...
SOME LIKE THEM SHORT-William March-Little, Brown...
...work as a stenographer at $100 a month for the Waterman Steamship Corp. Shrewd, well-liked, he rose rapidly to traffic manager, then to vice president. But he was not happy in his job, and meanwhile he had been making a reputation in little magazines as a talented short-story writer. This fact, however, he kept a close secret from his business associates. His stories were published under the pseudonym of William March. His literary output and reputation, though not his literary earnings, increased rapidly. In 1933 appeared a War novel, Company K; in 1936 his powerful novel of Georgia...
...year he checked up on his savings account. He figured he now had sufficient income to stop working and write as he pleased. He sent in his resignation to baffled superiors, moved to a Manhattan apartment, began the full-time literary career he had dreamed of. Some Like Them Short is his first book since then-a collection of 20 tight-kerneled, first-rate stories and sketches ranging from the tale of a shoe salesman to a group of sketches about German War prisoners. But only four of these stories were written in the last year. Besides these, Author March...
...perfection of their projects. Of such a nature is the work being done with the Social Science Committee on their program called "America Goss to War." This, however, is purely temporary and for the most part the committee will be interested in original scripts and the arranging of short stories and dramas for production. Already they are working on an original play by Assistant Professor Theodore Spencer will full permission to make all necessary revisions...