Word: shortly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third short story was Comes a Day. That's the first I sold. I was twenty-one." As for the play Comes a Day, "I just wanted to write a play, and I sat down and wrote one. Actually this is the second play I wrote. The first one was Out by the Country Club. Joshua Logan bought that." Country Club was preceded by a novel of the same name...
...rewriting job is no easier because Comes a Day is related to Lamkin's short story of the same title. In fact he rejects the distinction between original play and adaptation. "No play is an original play... All of Tennessee's plays came from either his one-acts or his stories. They're developments. You think about it. Certainly you can't say my play is an adaptation of my short story. It's quite different .... I'd never adapt anybody else's play. I've too much ego for that...
However, Freidel guessed that any move in the South would be a bid "to short-circuit the Presidential nominee rather than start a major political party. Southern Senators don't want to lose their Senatorial seniority," he explained...
Died. Abram Garfield, 85, patriarchitect of Cleveland, son of U.S. President James Abram Garfield; in Cleveland. As a boy, Garfield lived briefly in the White House during his father's short presidency...
From his first (1938) book of long short stories to his latest novel, Richard Wright has given proof that anger can sometimes command more attention than art. He has one string to his bow: the shameful plight of the Negro in the white man's world. His writing is graceless, and he uses it with the subtlety of a lynching. It is doubtful for just how many of his fellow Negroes he speaks. But it is impossible to read him without sharing his indignation...