Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Born. To Teresa Wright, 27, starry-eyed cinemactress (Best Years of Our Lives"), and Hollywood Writer Niven Busch, 44 (Duel in the Sun): their second child, first daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Mary Kelly. Weight...
...Writer: ". . . An ulcer with a pencil. . . . The weight of [his] head causes his buggy-whip backbone to bend forward, giving the impression that the writer is concealing a boomerang in the back of his coat...
...police shorthand writer, leaning against a wall, impassively took note of this incitement to violence. Three-quarters of the crowd approved it. ... Standing in the streets were ordinary working men, listening with attention and with approbation. 'That's right' they said, as the speaker told them of the folly of making war on Germany. 'That's right,' they said, as he denounced the House of Commons as an institution...
...Risk of Dyspepsia. Reading, says Essayist Jackson, is an art. The real reader is a collaborating artist in the production of literature. "The writer expresses himself in a book, the reader through a book. Reading at its most intense becomes writing by proxy. When Schopenhauer said that reading was merely thinking with other people's brains, he was right. Reading is even further in that direction. IHs becoming someone else for the time being . . . and when we read we do not so much enter into the souls of others; we let them enter into us. We become Shakespeare...
HOUSE DIVIDED (1514 pp.)-Ben Ames Williams-Houghton Mifflin ($5). Ben Ames Williams made his reputation as a writer of brawny short stories, many of which appeared in the Saturday Evening Post. Like good hybrid corn, his yield has increased until it has overflowed into novels-novels that get bigger as Williams gets deeper into the American past. In Thread of Scarlet, he covered Nantucket Island during the War of 1812, in a mere 374 pages. Come Spring, a Revolutionary War novel, ran to 866 pages. His latest, House Divided, sprawls over fifteen hundred pages and four years of Confederate...