Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...finished editing Carl Solberg's fine takeout on the late great Welsh Poet DYLAN THOMAS (see BOOKS), Senior Editor Henry Anatole Grunwald recalled a small chapter of the Thomas legend: once the poet had wanted to write for TIME. In 1945 Thomas asked U.S. Poet-Critic OSCAR WILLIAMS: "Could you approach TIME - whom you suggested as possible employers - and get some definite promise, however small, from them?" Unfortunately, Thomas postponed his trip to America five years and never came to TIME...
...custody case, Judge Knight found the bench as dull as the bar. "I knew exactly how the cases I was trying were going to come out an hour after they began. But a judge can't shut a lawyer up. I used to sit on the bench and write letters, or anything, just to keep occupied. There came a time when...
...free-lancers write more than half the articles that appear in the Saturday Evening Post, Reader's Digest, Cottier's, McCall's, This Week and scores of others...
Countless others, including many professional newsmen, write an occasional article, or hold regular jobs while they try to free-lance on the side. But the successful full-time free-lancer who depends only on the articles he sells to magazines is a rare breed. "Since the decline of the oldtime prospector," says Morton Sontheimer, past president of the 91-member Society of Magazine Writers, "few people have worked with less companionship, few have had to rely more on their own resources." For the top writers magazines compete fiercely. Satevepost pays a new writer $750 for his first piece, then jumps...
...Lewis is likely to be lighting such tapers for some time to come. To be released this month are the radio adaptations of two new novels commissioned from him by the BBC. Though nearly blind as the result of a tumor involving the optic nerve, Lewis still manages to write, in large letters on sheets of white paper thumbtacked to a drawing board. His wife Anne types his manuscripts, reads him the newspapers (for several hours daily...