Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Henry Wallace does not quite suit Moscow yet. Writing in the Kremlin mouthpiece, the New Times, high-ranking Soviet Writer V. M. Berezhkov noted some ideas of a "naive and Utopian character" in Wallace's book, Toward World Peace. Particularly naive, thought Berezhkov, is Wallace's idea that capitalism can be reformed and made "progressive." Berezhkov thought, however, that the forces behind Wallace would continue to play "a very essential role" in U.S. politics, even after the election...
...most Protestants (and many Roman Catholics), the Mass is a formal, mysterious ritual which typifies a formal, mysterious church. Last week Monsignor Ronald A. Knox, famed British scholar and detective-story writer, published a cheerful, witty, informal book called The Mass in Slow Motion (Sheed & Ward; $2.50). Designed to explain the mysterious Latin mumble-jumble of the Mass, the book combines reverence with readability...
...theatrical season," wrote the New York Star's new drama critic last week, "got tangled in the starting gate Tuesday night, and all bets are temporarily off." That sounded more like a sport-writer than a play reviewer-and it was, sure enough. The reviewer, who got off to a somewhat better start than Sundown Beach (see THEATER), was John Lardner, 36, chipperest off the old block of all the late great Humorist Ringgold Wilmer Lardner's four sons...
...neither a polished writer nor a knowing crystal-gazer. But brawny Irving Kupcinet (pronounced CUP-senate) had proved, to the satisfaction of Marshall Field's Chicago Sun-Times, that one good local columnist will outsell all the syndicated canned goods on the market. "Kup's Column," a casually tossed salad of chitchat and nightclub gossip with a Leonard Lyons-like flavor, is easily the most widely read feature in Chicago...
Married. James A. Michener, 41, 1947 Pulitzer Prizewinning novelist (Tales of the South Pacific); and Vange A. Nord, 26, publicity writer; in Manhattan...