Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...telephone rang, and the Chief Editorial Writer, famed and celebrated throughout the land for his fearless and colorful crusades, rolled over, picked it up, grunted at it, and started listening, "O.K. champ, you're in the slot. We're printing this morning instead of tonight on account of somebody fouled up the schedule. We need an editorial...
...possibly Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, could attract. His committee of support includes Albert Einstein, who cabled that "only the unbendable will of the people can free the forces which are necessary for such a radical break with the old and outlived tradition in politics"; the U.S. ex-Communist writer Richard Wright (Native Son) is another Davisite. Says Wright: "Can the peoples believe in the efforts of the U.S. for democracy and freedom when it is well known that the U.S. does not support her own democratic institutions?" Albert Camus (The Plague) is one of Davis' most active and effective...
...first three questions, yes to the last. Judge Yankwich ordered M-G-M to put Cole back on its payroll and fork over $74,250 in back salary. M-G-M lawyers, who argued that the judge's instructions amounted to a directed verdict for Writer Cole, got ready to take the case to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...
What goes on inside? Probably no one outside of the Politburo could tell the whole story, but the Russian writer Konstantin Zhikharev, ex-Red army major, has sketched in the outline in the new Russian-language Paris periodical, Narodnaya Pravda (The People's Truth). "The EKU," writes Zhikharev, "is divided into two main sections which direct political control of the whole domestic economy, and economic espionage throughout the world." The first maintains a secret police network covering all Russian economic enterprises, keeps all production statistics (which are state secrets), and administers forced labor. But the activities...
Praise. Was the applause only for Flagstad's voice? (The reviews next day were unanimous: "Flagstad Returns, Greater Than Ever." The Herald Tribune called her "incomparably the most distinguished of living singers." The Times spoke of "eloquence and splendor unequaled in this writer's experience.") Or was the cheering also for Kirsten Flagstad the woman-a way of saying that the past was over, that her political sins were forgiven...