Word: writer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neither the Republicans' labor bill nor the Communist coup in Hungary got such space in the Examiner as Beulah and Bud. The Los Angeles press invaded suburban Santa Ana in force, with 30-odd reporters, photographers and such trained seals as Mystery Writer Craig Rice (later fired), Screenwriter Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, and Adela Rogers St. Johns...
Press & public are used to regarding Parliament's business as their own, but Parliament took its time in letting them in on it. For centuries it published no journal; coffee-house gossip spread the news of its debates. When a newsletter writer "presumed ... to take notice of the proceedings of the House" in 1694, he was summoned to the bar, forced to kneel and admit his offense. Not until 1803, in Luke Hansard's day, were reporters given seats of their own in the gallery, instead of having to rub elbows with other "strangers...
...from the sublime to the ridiculous. Tolstoy, for example (a child of nature whose animal passions filled his novels with "rich streams of ... creative primeval lustiness and health"), fought his passions until he believed he had converted himself from a lecherous, iconoclastic youth into an apostolic, vegetarian writer of Christian tracts ("I am ashamed to speak of my disgusting body," he said). But a rabbit had only to jump up under his feet to make him let out a hunter's bloodthirsty yell. One evening, out of sheer exuberance of animal spirits, the "elderly prophet" sprang onto his father...
William Hodding Carter, Jr., Editor and publisher of the Delta Democrat-Times, Greenville, Miss., and former publisher of the Cairo edition of "Stars and Stripes" and "Yank" magazine; awarded Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1946, Southern Writers Award for his novel, "Wings of Fear." Master of Arts. Citation: "Writer and publisher, forward looking interpreter of the South, we welcome back a former Nieman Fellow...
Despite Wallace Stegner's recent generalization that a college literary magazine is "not good enough for the really good writer in any university," the Commencement issue of The Advocate displays an assemblage of poetry and prose that would grace the pages of any periodical between here and Pale Alto, California...