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...Producer Walter Wanger, an old hand at making movies about politics (e.g., Washington Merry-Go-Round, The President Vanishes), announced that he will base a production on the latest (September, 1954) book by Oregon's Democratic Senator-elect Richard L. Neuberger. The tome: Adventures in Politics, a frolicsome autobiography...
...late Poetess Gertrude (Tender Buttons) Stein and her constant companion and autobiographee Alice B. Toklas, used to have gay old times together in the kitchen. Some of the unique delicacies that were whipped up will soon be catalogued by the U.S. publisher, Harper & Bros., in a wildly epicurean tome called The Alice B. Toklas Cook Book, which is already causing excited talk on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps Alice's most gone concoction (and also a possible clue to some of Gertrude's less earthly lines) was her hashish fudge ("which anyone could whip...
...discipline. During the mid-thirties he was Yugoslav Senior Foil Champion four consecutive years, and led the Yugoslav team in the 1936 Olympics at Berlin. With the same aggressive energy that marks his fencing style, he attacked the details of design and earned a Ph.D. in aeronautical engineering at Tome in 1942. Caught by the war, he served a seven month prison sentence for refusing to aid the Axis machine...
...with Kinsey's figures as soon as they could be obtained. Besides, the suspenseful buildup was excellent publicity. The publishers (Philadelphia's W. B. Saunders Co.) were counting on a sure bestseller: they had ordered a first printing of 250,000 for the 842-page, $8 tome, were certain that the public was breathless to learn what Kinsey had discovered about the American Woman...
...reared its transmigrated head in the proletarian writings of Vasily Semenovich Grossman, an engineer-turned-author who spent World War II as a combat correspondent with the Red army, and had moved on to high regard in Communist literary circles. For the Right Cause, Grossman's unfinished tome on the battle of Stalingrad, had been certified as dialectically sound by Moscow's literati. But after it appeared, Kommunist angrily reversed the verdict: For the Right Cause was "permeated" with the wrong slant. Pythagorist Grossman, warned Pravda a few days later, had better recant...