Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...writer," writes Ernest Hemingway (TIME, Aug. 4), "has no more right to inform the public of the weaknesses and strengths of his fellow professionals than a doctor or a lawyer has." But in The Torrents of Spring, Ernest Hemingway wrote: " 'Further beyond there would be Indianapolis, Indiana where Booth Tarkington lived. He had the wrong dope, that fellow.' . . . 'Nobody had any damn business to write about it [war], though, that didn't at least know about it from hearsay. Like this American writer Willa Cather who wrote a book about the war where all the last...
Once the designer for Los Angeles' swank Bullock's-Wilshire store, Irene, who is married to Hollywood Writer Eliot Gibbons (brother of MGM's art director, Cedric Gibbons) went to M-G-M in 1942, where she heads a staff of more than 200. She will now cut down her M-G-M designing to eight or ten major pictures a year, delegate the rest to her assistants. MGM, anticipating profitable publicity tie-ins from the department stores, is entirely happy about the setup...
...Newcomers. Aside from their contacts with Johnson, many of the present owners-including an ex-Army officer and an editorial writer-had no particular qualifications to operate a restaurant except some loose cash. The cost of land and construction (ranging from $50,000 to $90,000), plus a minimum of $1,000 which they paid for a Johnson franchise, was their big contribution...
...attempt to convey the idea that nuns are human beings is doubtless laudable and sincerely undertaken. But considering the fact that Writer-Directors...
Talent with a Taint. Eddie Lewis, the narrator, is a pressagent, prey to the pressagent's stock neurosis: Shall I go on prostituting my talent for dough or shall I bravely become a Serious Writer? A nice girl, Beth, thinks Eddie should be brave, but his boss, Nick Latka, has a big thing for him to build up-a giant Argentine with a glass jaw who can be babied and ballyhooed into a heavyweight contender. This game appeals to Eddie and so does his promised cut of the proceeds, so he takes leave of Beth and swings...