Word: writed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Writes Author Fast of these well-heeled Red-liners: "I would hesitate to write this scene in a novel, for it has no sane justification except its truth. This was a handful in one room but all over the nation the mental-revolutionaries, the parlor-pinks, the living-room warriors, the mink-coated allies of the working class wept that people like myself had betrayed the holy cause of Communism-but at least I know what I stepped away from...
...Insurance. Animal Insurance Co. of America has been formed in Manhattan as the first firm to insure the lives of animals exclusively, will write policies up to $5,000 on dogs (mutts excluded) aged six months to nine years. Potential canine insurees: 10 million...
...publisher's handout of $15 a week, finished a mawkish Elizabethan historical romance (Michael Scarlett), taught some American sugar planters' children English and math in Cuba, junketed around Europe as tutor to a 14-year-old polio victim. Later, he drew on his Cuban impressions to write two more apprentice novels, Cockpit and The Son of Perdition, unlikely tales of tropic adventure. In Ask Me Tomorrow, Cozzens used his European experiences for a crisply satiric self-portrait, complete with a characteristic blast at the American expatriates...
...Trenton station for an early train to Manhattan, then returns for a breakfast of scrambled eggs, orange juice and milk. He works from 8 to noon (he is a two-finger typist). Says Cozzens, who spent eight years on By Love Possessed: "For every three pages I write, I throw away two. On a good day, I get two pages done...
...considered a man of distinction because I write books. The truth is, we don't deserve it." Cozzens regards most of his fellow writers as softies. Says he: "The Old Man and the Sea could have run in Little Folks magazine. Under the rough exterior of Hemingway, he's just a great big bleeding heart. Sinclair Lewis was a crypto-sentimentalist and a slovenly writer who managed a slight falsification of life in order to move the reader. Faulkner falsified life for dramatic effect. It's sentimentality disguised by the corncob. I can't read...