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...notch literature: "I have nothing against Mr. Wouk. It's simply the matter of him being built up because he shows respect to so-called hallowed institutions . . . Good novelists better leave the hallowing of sacred institutions to people who get paid to hallow them! Now take Norman Vincent (The Power of Positive Thinking) Peale. His approach is 'How to Get Rich Through Prayer!' . . . The books which bring comfort alone are never good books." Of fickle U.S. literary critics, many of whom spat contemptuously (TIME, May 28) on Algren's uncomforting Wild Side: "They like to think...
...said that the market-rigging had been directed by a New York onion grower, Vincent W. Kosuga, and a Chicago produce distributor, Sam S. Siegel, in a deal with 13 onion growers. But partway through, said CEA, the city slickers seemed to have doublecrossed the growers, who lost heavily...
...Lanier Williams changed his first name to Tennessee because he wanted to disassociate from the bad stuff he had written when his name was Tom. A lot of that early work was poetry; like a lot of young men and women, he had tried to write like Edna St. Vincent Millay without knowing one end of a burning candle from the other. But even as Tennessee, and even after The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire had proved where his real talent lay, Williams went on writing poetry...
...Stewart, often overdramatizes the dark side into deepest doom. But Alsop's dramatic flair as a reporter in foreign lands seizes surely on color, incident, history and personality to bring a situation crackling to life. In this journalistic field he has had few peers since the days of Vincent (Personal History) Sheean...
Also, Lindsay D. Fischer of Leverett and Colorado Springs; Vincent R. Larson, of Adams and Minot, N.D.; James M. Murphy of Eliot and New York City; and Kenneth Rossano of Kirkland and East Meadow...