Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read with great interest the very able article on my father, Mahatma Gandhi [TIME, Feb. 9]. It was of the high standard you have led people to expect. ... I profoundly agree with the thesis of the writer that there was something more human and greater than "mysticism" in Gandhi. But the "notably unmystical metaphor" which you attribute to him-"If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 300,000 Englishmen"-was never uttered...
Carroll Binder, chief editorial writer of the Minneapolis Tribune, writing in the American Mercury, declared that "possession of a Pulitzer Prize does not guarantee that the holder is among the best [newspapermen]. Nor is the lack of a Pulitzer Prize evidence that a veteran newspaperman is not among the most capable or fearless." Binder put the blame for bad choices on the 13-man Pulitzer advisory board, mostly publishing executives of big newspapers. (The board meets annually at the April convention of the American Newspaper Publishers Association...
Died. Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, 48, invalid widow of Jazz Age Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald; in a fire which destroyed a building of the Highland Hospital (for mental and nervous diseases); in Asheville, N.C. A writer herself (Save Me the Waltz, a thinly disguised autobiographical novel), she married Fitzgerald a few weeks after his first novel (This Side of Paradise) came out, was once described as ."the brilliant counterpart of the heroines of his novels...
...hometown of Hadley, Iowa (Miller grow up in a small Iowa town) for his father's funeral Peter's sensations of contrast between Big City excitement and small-town torpor have real force. The resurrections of his high-school love affair and the interlude with the Hadley Republican feature writer, a "promising" young lady journalist in her and Peter's bygone teens, catch the bittersweet of memory spanning adolescence-to-thirty...
Meanwhile, the Boston press split on the issue, Traveler writer George Carens claiming that Moher had been hit on the head while down so badly that he was unable to wear a hat the following...