Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russell Ogg and they settled down to live in a Manhattan slum on his $15-a-week salary. Norma quickly turned the hardship into $1,100 from the Reader's Digest for a sprightly piece on We Live in the Slums. She joined the Trib as a feature writer in 1944. But not till two years ago did she get her first chance on a breaking news story when the Trib sent her to Havana to cover the Satira yacht-murder of Playboy John Lester Mee (TIME, May 5,1947). She scooped a horde of male reporters by getting...
...Fraternities have an extremely important social position on most U. S. campuses, and they feel that they can keep this position only through restriction of membership. A few months ago, a Williams man told this writer that "we personally don't much care what religion a guy is when we pledge him, but if we didn't pick our members carefully, nobody would want to join us." As long as people like the Williams man must disregard their personal convictions because of outside pressure, no one-shot resolution will cure fraternity discrimination...
...able a writer, Bowles fails to give his story much significance. Both Port and Kit are neurotic intellectual playchildren so short on real character and appeal that they seem hardly worth saving. The death of one and the madness of the other seem appropriate but by no means tragic ends. Much as she cares for Port, Kit makes love to his best friend and tripmate, Tunner, in a train compartment, again on a sand dune as Port lies dying. Kit and Port, with their indistinct backgrounds and motives, are largely novelist's puppets, and Tunner is a collard lightweight...
...King, and usually wrote with royal restraint, sometimes, during separations, he wrote her as warmly as any other 16th Century swain, e.g., ". . . Wishing myself (especially of an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty duckies I trust shortly to kiss . . ." The real trouble with Henry as a writer of love letters: his emotions always turned out to be so unstable...
...Selected Writings will "give readers a chance to assess Critic Cowley's statement that Hearn's "folk tales are the most valuable part of [his work] ... He is the writer in our language who can best be compared with Hans Christian Andersen and the brothers Grimm." Many readers will cast their votes in favor of the blunt, naturalistic American Sketches, where Author Hearn's florid prose frames some breathtaking sights in19th Century Cincinnati's Sausage Row and the New Orleans voodoo belt...