Word: writes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even "the greatest living authority" wasn't enough to produce the rounded picture of Wilder that Barton needed to write his cover story. In addition to interviews with a number of the writer's other friends and early associates, Barton and Researcher Marjorie Burns spent a day with Wilder's sister Isabel at her home in New Haven...
...including three novels by Isabel. Giving away books seemed to be a family weakness; Researcher Burns was given a cookbook before they left. But Isabel Wilder was hesitant about disclosing her brother's whereabouts, knowing that he had gone to Europe with the intent of secluding himself to write, and the only address she gave was American Express, Paris...
...from a teacher like himself, I took to be a compliment. He remembered Barton warmly, but as far as I remember had no recommendation for his becoming a headmaster- field probably crowded." Baker's 15,000-word report provided the bulk of the additional material Barton needed to write his story - the fifth cover story he has done for TIME. The others: Hutchins, Wellesley President Margaret Clapp...
Standing in a Manhattan bar one night last spring, Newsman Carey Wilber watched, with mounting amazement, the unfolding of a TV drama. When it was over, Wilber said to the bartender: "I can write stuff as good as that." The next day he bought a second-hand book entitled The Television Program. He read it on his way to Toronto, where he was working as a reporter on the Globe and Mail. Then he wrote a 30-minute TV script which was promptly bought by Armstrong Circle Theater. Last week another Wilber play, The Fire Below and the Devil Above...
...with a rented TV set and a rented typewriter. His formula is simplicity itself: "I think of the pictures I need to tell a story and then arrange them in the sequence I think best-from there on it's just like working on the copy desk and writing captions for a picture." His plots are equally simple: "I get two characters going and I put them in a mess, and then they write the show themselves...