Word: wrighting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the wings, most plays seem chaotic; so do most geniuses. Architect Frank Lloyd Wright's buildings might argue him a clear well of disciplined, harmonious art; but in his son's backstage biography, My Father Who Is on Earth (Putnam; $3.50), the great man sometimes looks more like a ham actor in search of a role. Says Son John Lloyd Wright: "I can think of him . . . as Don Quixote, to whom every windmill was a woman in distress; as Apis, who was conceived by a bolt of lightning; as Ferdinand, who loved the aroma of flowers...
...exactly half of that amount, $3,375," Miss Rice informed me. "The other half goes to my publisher, who, like all first-edition publishers today, takes 50% of all authors' reprint royalties. And, of course, I pay 10% to my agent, thereby netting 40% for myself." Miss Lee Wright, editor of Simon & Schuster's Inner Sanctum Mysteries, Miss Rice's first-edition publishers, confirmed this emphatically over the telephone tonight. "Craig has just the same sort of contract as any other writer," said Miss Wright. "We take 50% of her reprint royalties...
...Wright, Jean Raindel, and Bob Cabot are some of the new acquisitions on whom Manager John Kennedy is stak the team's future...
Merle Fainsod, associate professor of Government, was appointed chairman of the Department of Government February 1 to succeed Benjamin F. Wright, professor of Government, who now heads the 12-man Committee on General Education...
Professor Wright continues his activity on behalf of the "objectives of General Education in a Free Society" as chairman of a committee that will continue to make investigations and recommendations in the applications of principles stated in the original Report...