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Word: stoutly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...DOORBELL RANG by Rex Stout. 186 pages. Viking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grand Race | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

...when the mystery novel is designed more for the economy-class airline traveler than for the home armchair reader, Rex Stout's way has not changed. After 31 years, Nero Wolfe is still 286 Ibs. large, still guzzles at least a dozen beers and tends his orchids for precisely four hours daily, still abhors leaving his Manhattan house on business, and never goes near a sports car or chases a blonde. While thus ignoring Bondomania and its sibling rivals, Stout and Wolfe are doing just fine. If The Doorbell Rang holds true to recent form, it will sell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grand Race | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

Casting the FBI as villain has brought Author Stout publicity he has not had in years. It just seemed to make a good plot, he says, though admitting that "I think the untrammeled power of FBI is subversive to the American democratic idea." Normally, he does not let his views suffuse his mysteries. "By the age of 47," says the spare, spiny-bearded author, who is now 78, "I had written four so-called serious novels that had got some critical praise. But I realized that I was not and never would be a great writer. I had decided, though...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Grand Race | 11/5/1965 | See Source »

Those schools known as the Ivy League have long held the gridiron to be a masculine domain. Stout-hearted lads with long horns and strong drink can and have provided all the cheer the serious university needs. There is certainly no total exclusion of women. They are permitted to sit in the stands. But if they are allowed to gambol on the field of play who is to stop them from participating in the very contests themselves? Are we to countenance the sight of the finest products of our young ladies' seminaries, helmeted, and padded, raging at each other like...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lady Cheerleaders' Lovers | 11/3/1965 | See Source »

...STOUT (President) ABE BURROWS ELIZABETH JANEWAY HERBERT MITGANG LEO ROSTEN JEROME WEIDMAN THEODORE H. WHITE HERMAN WOUK The Authors League of America, Inc. New York City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 17, 1965 | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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