Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then John's irate daddy, 76-year-old Industrialist John R. Winter, fired the persuasive Brazilian. According to John, Sabino forthwith threatened to "pump me full of hot lead," and made John write off all debts on the clothes, TV set and car, and on top of that had the gall to demand a $100-a-week salary for life...
...neat and narrow as a coffin. Written by a pair of playwrights who are married, it concerns a pair who are divorced (after two Broadway failures). In a freak legal wrangle, because they have both thought up a play with the same plot, they get a court order to write it together. Propinquity makes hearts grow fonder, and they decide, if the new play clicks, to remarry. Then they decide that love outweighs success. and to remarry whatever happens...
Businessmen themselves are not happy with the results of heavy specialization. They have found that engineering graduates are often so unschooled in the humanities that they talk and write badly, have not the wide background needed to become executives. Says A. A. Stambaugh, board chairman of Standard Oil of Ohio: "Real leadership is compounded of the broadening cultural influences of liberal arts colleges. Industries have lots of men worth $10,000 a year, but can't find many worth...
...Tomorrow are Wylie's orgiastic descriptions of falling bombs and U.S. cities going up in sky-high sheets of fire. They are effective for the simple reason that Wylie has been expecting a large-scale annihilation of his erring fellow men for many years and can therefore write of it with passionate intensity. Indeed, he concludes that bombing may be regarded as an "ultimate blessing," because total devastation provides "opportunity for young men" and gives architects a chance to design better cities. Moreover, by obliterating Mr. Bailey and his embezzlements, it gives Lenore the chance to marry Chuck...
...last summer at 45, he had to his credit an intense, rough-edged novel about Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis, the identifier of childbed fever (The Cry and the Covenant; TIME, Nov. 14, 1949). One thing Thompson had obviously wanted to be: a doctor. Failing that, he had desperately wanted to write well, especially about doctors and medicine. He never became a doctor, and he never became a top writer, but what he lacked in craft was more than made up in sincerity. If Not as a Stranger is nothing else, it is a triumph of I-Will-Be-Heard...