Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...editorial positions, the editorial writing staff emerges periodically from the ivory tower to gather firsthand information, plant ideas, and lobby for the Star's causes. Last month, alarmed about a rising traffic death rate, the Star ran a lead editorial deploring the carnage, then sent Editorial Writer James W. Scott out for earnest conferences with Police Chief Bernard Brannon and other authorities. Result: a new 36-man traffic detail and a series of frontpage editorials backing up the police department's campaign...
Born. To Suzy Parker, 26, top U.S. fashion model, now a budding cinemactress (The Best of Everything), and Pierre de la Salle, 31, French playboy and sometime writer: their first child, a daughter; in Paris. Name: Georgia. Weight...
Woodworking Works. Disaffection with the times is the common ingredient. Predictably, the writer who has mixed the smoothest cup of brine is The New Yorker's John Cheever. With his oft-repeated visions of suburbia under a lowering sky, the author is obviously following Faulkner's lead by creating a kind of Yoknapatawpha, Conn. The fact that there are no Snopeses and not even very much crab grass in the commuters' heaven adds wry emphasis to Cheever's reiterated question. "Is this all there is?" ask his characters, who have everything. In The Country Husband...
...Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman mixes his murky symbols into a witch's brew that, though stirred with confusion, is well worth sampling...
...Magician (Swedish). Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman mixes his murky symbols into a witch's brew well worth sampling...