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Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10:30 p.m., Mutual). Frederic Wakeman, who satirized radio in The Hucksters (TIME, June 3), defends his best-seller before a trio of critics...
...HUCKSTERS (307 pp.)-Frederic Wakeman-Rinehart...
Unlovable Evan L. Evans-who always wore a dirty straw hat and a bandanna, even when he drove in one of his Rolls-Royces-is the principal monster in Frederic Wakeman's sharp, comical novel about the monstrousness of present-day radio advertising. (Author Wakeman, whose first novel, Shore Leave, has averaged a comfortable thousand-a-week sale since 1944, used to write radio commercials for Campbell's Soup, Lucky Strike...
...favorite bar!" Evans told Vic: "You got to eat, drink, sleep, and yes, by God, dream soap. Check?" "Check!" screamed back his underlings in desperate unison. Any one who failed to scream back "Check!" went out on his ear, Partner Kim told Vic. But Author Wakeman's main story is of how Vic gave Old Man Evans as good as he got. It is also the story of how Vic, despite years of cynicism and success, was helped by his own conscience and a heartfelt love affair to decide that no man worth his salt should waste his mind...
...could applaud Actress-of-the-Year Ingrid Bergman, wrinkle his pseudo-Philistine brow over the re-emergence of Artist-of-the-Year Pablo Picasso, still full of invention and razzle-dazzle, still able to rouse resentment. He could view the discovery of streptomycin by Doctor-of-the-Year Selman Wakeman as something more than irony...