Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Certainly Amazed." Equally uncooperative but not so loud was Samuel Dashiell Hammett, the grey, gaunt writer of mystery stories (The Thin Man). Three hundred copies of Hammett's books are on the shelves in 73 of the libraries. Hammett said he thought that "it is impossible to write anything without taking some sort of stand on social issues," but he steadfastly refused to say whether he is or ever was a Communist...
Handsome young Dr. Lawrence W. Leslie sat down at the desk in his Chicago living room and began to write: "To the coroner-Dear Sir." It was late at night. The 33-year-old doctor had been through a harrowing evening, but he wrote neatly and methodically. As far as his friends knew, he was that kind of man. He had just finished serving two years in the Air Force-to which he had been called after finishing his internship-and had been in Chicago for less than three months, but his North Side apartment neighbors had noted his easy...
...Told Him." Swaffer freely admitted that his verdicts were capricious: "I judge people by my liver." After damning a show which he had verbally praised, Swaffer apologized to the manager: "When I sit down to write my criticism, the devil takes possession of me." Actor-Author Noel Coward once refused him first-night tickets, said he couldn't act if Swaffer was in the theater. "You're a better actor than you are a writer," Swaffer told him. Snapped Coward...
...Europe today, De Staël is ranked amount the most important "young" artists. Manhattan critics, pleased to have something really new to write about, troweled on the praise. "Majestic," said the Times. Said Art News: "One of the few painters to emerge from postwar Paris with something personal to say, and a way of saying it with authority." Manhattan buyers were just as complimentary in a more practical way: by week's end the show was a near sellout...
After Le Diable, Radiguet began to study the most famous of the French courtly novels, The Princess of Cleves by Madame de Lafayette (TIME, May 28, 1951), and was inspired to write Le Bal du Comte d'Orgel. "A chaste love story"-he called it-"as shocking as the least chaste...