Word: steinbeck
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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University Theater (Sun. 2:30 p.m., NBC). John Steinbeck's Grapes of Wrath...
Author John Steinbeck's estranged wife, Gwyn Conger Steinbeck, temporarily settled in Reno for a routine divorce, got mixed up in ugly complications. Her occasional dinner partner, Denverite Leonard J. Wolff, morose over his own divorce and out $86,000 on the night's gambling, brought her home one morning, 45 minutes later blew his brains out. Authorities cleared Gwyn of any connection with the suicide, declared that she was a victim of circumstances ("it could have happened to any girl...
...past year the Journal ran the Stimson memoirs, the Stilwell diary, the Robert Capa-John Steinbeck Russian essay, a presidential series by Roger Butterfield, articles on bad housing, "The Alcoholic and His Women," and "Why Do Women Cry." By male tastes (which do not matter to the Journal), its "problem" fiction is below the standard of its articles -but it is not for want of hunting for new authors or problems. The Journal took twelve first stories (at a minimum of $750) by budding writers. Its fiction, food and architecture displays are decorated with wide-open, four-color layouts that...
Last week the infant World Video was growing fast. Only one show, Paris Cavalcade of Fashion, which began last May, was on the air. But 60 other husky young ideas are in some stage of production, and Steinbeck & Co. are looking around for more. "We're the only people who are doing shows," he explains. "Everybody else is having lunch and talking about them...
...Says Steinbeck: "People become literate only by exposure to fairly literate things. We're making no soap operas at all ... When the radio's on, people only-half listen, but when your eyes are centered, your attention is centered ... the quality must be higher. I shudder to think of what we'll do to housework...