Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Norton S. Brown, internist, for marrying (third husband) Writer-Actress Ilka (In Bed We Cry) Chase...
...footer with a bulging nose and "a beard that resembles a wig," he was a melancholy bachelor who could "blubber bottlesful" over Tennyson's poems. The son of a bankrupt, he began painting for his living at 15. It was as a painter, and not as a writer of "bosh," that he wished to be known...
Mississippi-born Playwright Williams, 33, perhaps the surest weaver of vapors now writing for the U.S. stage, is a stocky, rather intense-looking fellow. He got that look, he explains, during his many years as a "rootless, wandering writer . . . clawing and scratching along a sheer surface and holding on tight with raw fingers"-years in which he worked as bellhop, elevator operator, movie usher, teletypist, warehouse handyman and verse-spieling waiter in a Greenwich Village bistro...
Divorced. By Joan Davis, 35, one of radio's loudest and most expensive comediennes (her contract calls for $10,000 a week): Si Wills, 48, once her vaudeville partner, then writer of her radio scripts; after 16 years of marriage, one child; in Los Angeles...
...Foreigners. It was also a year in which many well-known French novelists were brought to U.S. readers in translation. Three novels by François Mauriac acquainted U.S. readers with the painful penetration and classic structural quality of this eminent Catholic writer. The first two novels of Jean Paul Sartre's trilogy on France before World War II were studies in demoralization. André Gide reached All Hallows with the Nobel Prize and U.S. publication of the first volume of his Journals...