Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...John Huston will never be a great writer, because he is a bad observer. On locations I wore any odd or old clothing, as the going was mostly rough; but when I presented myself at the hotel I did not wear "faded khaki" as Mr. John Huston claims, but was dressed immaculately in a new and expensive tailored suit as would be proper if one is to meet somebody whom he believes important at so swanky a place as the Reforma Hotel...
...throne than there had been in Harry Truman's apprenticeship on the farm. They were both Missouri-bred, but there the resemblance ended. Clifford's father was a traveling auditor for the Missouri Pacific Railroad. His uncle was the late, fire-breathing Clark McAdams, liberal editorial writer on the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. His adoring mother is Georgia McAdams Clifford, who overrode the objections of her husband and became a Chautauqua circuit storyteller. One of her favorite numbers: the story of Persian Prince Sticky-sticky-stombo-no-so-rombo-hody-body-bosco-ica-non-nun-a -non-combo...
Although the scheduled program will not be released until later today, this morning's unofficial listing included: Al Capp, cartoon genius; Arthur Valpey, new Varsity football coach; Vern Miller '42, Boston sports writer who will M.O. the evening; one Mile. Charpentier, a mystery at present: the Dunster Dunees; a quartet from Wellesley; the Final Rhythm Kings: an entire U.S.O. entertainment unit; and possibly Victor Forge piano-playing radio...
These knowing rules-of-thumb for the aspiring back pose as "Advice to the Young Writer," and in the confusion between the two there is a danger that Signature has failed to notice. If a college literary magazine advises young writers to serve up the saccharine puree that Good Housekeeping and Glamour prefer, 1960's novelists may very well be a bunch of alayeys, modeling their work to the taste of every tired, disillusioned woman's magazine editor. Signature would have done better if they tried to obtain local writer-teachers such as Albert Guerard or John Ciardi to give...
...faculty," unique in the history of political action schools, would represent a cross-section of widely diversified opinion. Gael Sullivan, executive director of the Democratic National Committee, and Daniel Riesner, secretary of the New York county Republican Committee, will divide the speaking honors assisted by Lewis Frank, Jr., ghost-writer of many Wallace speeches...