Word: writings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being a very ardent reader of TIME for some years, I thought it only my duty to write and let you know just how it helped me out recently. While hitchhiking from Toronto to a small town near Callandar, the home of the Quints, I was having very good success, but TIME magazine was my saviour. 1 seems this man driving a new car passed me near a town and when I walked through it I noticed him starting up again, this time he didn't pass me by, but stopped himself without me raising my hand...
...McClintock, who more than any other member has made the Waring band memorable, by his froggy-voiced interpolations. Fred Buck is dead. Tom Waring is still considered one of the gang but spends most of his time practicing for a debut as a concert baritone. Fred directs production, helps write continuity, coaches the gang in rehearsal ("come lively," "stay with me," "give it rapture!"), plays golf in the 705 as his main relaxation...
...months ago Colonel Thompson finally reached an agreement with the Ryan estate. For $529,000 the heirs of Thomas Fortune Ryan agreed to sell their Auto-Ordnance stock, write off $1,090,000 in notes for money advanced to the old company. Other stockholders (including the heirs of Commander Blish) agreed to trade their shares for stock in new Thompson Automatic Arms Corp...
Last year Utopian Economist Stuart Chase, having discovered the 16-year-old science of semantics (the study of meanings), rushed off to write a book, The Tyranny of Words, whose point was in substance that if everybody used the right words, all misunderstandings and muddled thinking would evaporate and many of the world's ills would be cured. Last week Stuart Chase was again discovered playing his word game...
Whatever else Ben Hecht may be damned for-and blasphemy is likely to be included-he cannot be accused of writing A Book of Miracles for money. One of Hollywood's highest-paid writers (The Front Page, Let Freedom Ring, etc.), he forswore 15 months' salary to write it. (His movie salary is around $6,000 a week.) But for Hecht it was "fun writing what I want-without having Sam Goldwyn peering over my shoulder." Fun for Hecht has heretofore meant novels like Erik Dorn, Count Bruga, A Jew in Love-gaudy, swashbuckling, ranting books, splashed with...