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...Spinner Harry Jackson, waiting for work in a Bolton mill, explained how it happened to him. "My wife works in the mill. Now she's on short time. Last week we were earning together nearly ?18 ($50.58); now, only four or five." In grim, workaday Bolton, where a third of the population depends on the mills, there were thousands of Harry Jacksons. In crowded Lancashire, there were 70,000 wholly or partly unemployed...
Once rated as a spinner of superior thrillers (The Ministry of Fear, This Gun for Hire), he is now seriously discussed as possibly "the finest writer of his generation." No other writer in England enjoys Greene's combination of popular and critical success. The Midas-movies have touched his work to gold (twelve pictures, at least three of them first-rate successes: The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Confidential Agent). In 1948, The Heart of the Matter was a Book-of-the-Month Club choice in the U.S., and on the Continent Greene is England's bestselling author...
...with his hand-to-mouth life in Middleburg: his father had died when he was nine, his mother was on relief, and Bob Smith-the youngest of five kids-had had to quit school when he was in the tenth grade to take a job as spinner in a Middleburg silk mill...
When Clendenin J. Ryan, millionaire, amateur political reformer and onetime assistant to New York's Mayor La Guardia, decided last summer to write a book on politics, he got together with Author & Lecturer William Bradford Huie. Turned by a self-described "yarn spinner," Huie's sensational stories, such as his highly exaggerated account of the missing uranium at Chicago's Argonne Laboratory (TIME, May 30, 1949), made lively, if occasionally misleading, reading. But they dropped the book for something much bigger. Huie and Ryan decided to buy the faltering American Mercury. Since the Mercury's circulation...
Died. Ernest Haycox, 51, "the Somerset Maugham of the western," spinner of some 300 published Wild West yarns, including Union Pacific, Stagecoach; of cancer; in Portland...