Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seemed likely to win by a tiny margin, but the outcome depended on the disgruntled M.R.P. (Catholic Republicans), which lost heavily in the elections, and which also opposed last week's Cabinet cuts. The cuts were derided by a Communist writer in L'Humanité and by an anti-Communist writer in L'Epoque, both of whom by coincidence hit on the same sarcastic phrase: "A poultice on a wooden...
Rebecca, the haunting first wife in Novelist Daphne du Maurier's chilling best-seller (and movie), was haunting Novelist du Maurier. Six years after she was charged with lifting the plot from a Brazilian novelist (who later dropped the suit), Writer du Maurier had to defend herself against the same charge by a U.S. writer. In a Manhattan court, the son of the late Edwina Levin MacDonald (who died after she brought suit) charged that Rebecca was a steal from 1) his mother's novel, Blind Windows, 2) her short story, I Planned to Murder My Husband...
Such attitudes, said Writer Roberts, "infuriate proud, people." But there have been other things, even more infuriating...
...everything turns out okay. The Editor Tom Gerber is very impressed with a New York-writer-photog team. He asks how the trip from New York was and we say tough. He laughs, and kind of asks if there is anything...
...full chapter to tell the story of the Parkman-Webster murder case, which almost burst a blue blood-vein of proper Boston in 1849. Giving the account with subdued excitement, he advances step by step through, what he calls America's classic murder case, and proves himself an excellent writer of narrative...