Word: writer
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Died. Lieut. Commander Frank ("Spig") Wead, U.S.N. (ret.), 52, pioneer Navy flyer (he set five speed and endurance records in the '20s), Broadway playwright (Ceiling Zero), movie scenarist (The Citadel); of pneumonia and complications; in Santa Monica, Calif. Wead decided to become a writer when his flying was ended by a crippling accident in 1926. But he wangled his way back to active duty in 1942, served aboard Pacific carriers with his neck in a steel brace...
Halfway through his recently completed eight-month tour of Europe, Associate Editor and Foreign News Writer Sam Welles received the following cable from his boss, TIME's Foreign News Editor Max Ways...
Stops and Starts. Far-fetched and solemn jokester though she was, Gertrude Stein as a writer was about as gabby as they come. Maddeningly persistent and maddeningly placid, in Four in America she seems to take all day to say-with many stops and starts, reveries, irrelevancies and fond repetitions-what a good sharp professor could put in a few paragraphs...
Sandwich Man. As a war correspondent and writer for the New Yorker, Joe Liebling, a fat, friendly man who likes to listen while he works, proved himself one of the best U.S. reporters. Before that his career was often more down than...
When Van Wyck Brooks reached those middle years in which a writer dreams of consummating his career with a masterwork, he began his ambitious literary history of the U.S. The Flowering of New England, first volume of the history, provoked one of the bitterest intellectual battles of our time...