Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...room Manhattan apartment he shares with his witty wife, Sylvia, and their four sons is cluttered with the trappings of the great: Hitler's telephone, a coffee table dented by a Ray Bolger tap dance, a copy of Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe inscribed, "To a REAL writer...
Died. Edward Owen Cerf, 41, assistant managing editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of LIFE, onetime senior editor of TIME; by his own hand (gunshot); in Manhattan. Chicago-born, Oregon-reared Ed Cerf joined TIME as a writer after graduation from Princeton in 1940, the next year went into the Marine Corps, fought at Tarawa, Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima, by war's end had risen to the rank of major...
Mountolive, by Lawrence Durrell. Life, love and politics in Alexandria, as described by an exciting writer (earlier books in a projected tetralogy: Justine, Balthazar...
Borstal Boy, by Brendan Behan. The old-reform-school tie flashily worn by an unreformed and gifted Irish writer...
There is no evidence that 2nd Lieut. Glenn Gray and Major Edmund Love ever met during World War II. Gray, now philosophy professor at Colorado College, served as a counterintelligence operative in the European theater, while Love, now a professional writer (Subways Are for Sleeping), served in the Pacific as an Army historian. But if they had met, the conversation might have gone something like this...