Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...what my experience on the CRIMSON has meant to me. Being a writer and occasional public to me. Being a writer and occasional public speaker, I look upon my course with Bliss Perry and my apprenticeship on the CRIMSON as the source from which I first acquired the tools of my trade...
...Your own most recent work," the Russian told the hulking, hearty Steinbeck, "seems to us cynical." Steinbeck explained the job of a writer was to set down his time as he understood it. He tried to make clear the unofficial standing of writers in America : "They are considered just below acrobats and just above seals." Eventually, Capa & Steinbeck were given an interpreter and approval to go to the Ukraine, Stalingrad and Georgia, where the interpreter himself needed an interpreter. They went by air, always in U.S.-built C-47s, and never found a stewardess who did anything but carry pink...
...chance to exert themselves. The result is a nice, brisk, intelligent little B-plus melodrama, far more real and entertaining than the general run. Chief credits go to Players Dennis O'Keefe, Wally Ford and Alfred Ryder (Broadway's blooming June Lockhart is also present), to Writer John C. Higgins and Director Anthony Mann...
Answering a speech by Jacob M. Lomakin, former Soviet writer, who charged the American and British press with "war-mongering," monopolistic practices, and promoting war with Russia, Professor Chafee labelled the 1930 "divide-Europe" agreement between the Soviet and Germany as "real imperialism...
...press three days later, he was busy revising and rewriting. The story was completely typed eight different times. Everybody from Managing Editor T. S. Matthews, Executive Editor Roy Alexander and Assistant Managing Editor Dana Tasker read it and made comments. Not until six hours before press time was Editor-Writer Purtell entirely satisfied with the review...