Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beyond specific skills and techniques, veterans have a certain sense of confidence for having worked at their generation's job, learned some of its toughest lessons as youngsters. Hollywood Writer-Director Richard (The Blackboard Jungle) Brooks, 46, a Marine rifleman in the Marianas campaign, tries to sum up one tough-minded discovery. "Before...
...fund or the Stock Exchange's Monthly Investment Plan. So does the middle-income white-collar worker who hopes to send his son through college, the matron who saves to give her daughter a bang-up wedding. In Atlanta Mrs. Sara Pfeiffer, a trim, energetic grandmother and freelance writer, has organized three investment clubs, is busy with a fourth. Says a Cleveland commercial artist: "This year I became a capitalist. I went into the market for the first time...
Married. Bernard Buffet, 30, French painter whose spare depictions of hopelessness have made him a young millionaire in postwar France; and Annabel May Schwob de Lure, 30, model-singer-writer; in Ramatuelle, France...
...WOMEN, by Alberto Moravia. For once, Italy's best writer seems to say that sex is not the most urgent business of mankind. His heroines (or victims) are a widowed mother and her daughter trying to find a quiet place to sit out the war. They are ill-used in turn by fellow countrymen so rude and crude that only a fellow Italian would dare describe them. Finally they return to Rome with wounds deeper than those they thought to escape...
FROM THE TERRACE, by John O'Hara. The biggest (897 pages), most ambitious novel of a writer who takes himself more seriously than it is possible to take his most recent books. A potentially nice rich kid from O'Hara's Pennsylvania runs short on character, presumably because of the sins of the father and the social disarrangements of his own time. The O'Hara ear for speech has the relentless giveaway of a tape recorder-but it reels on too long. Head and shoulders above the year's run of the mill, but still...