Word: writer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his wife and two sons, Writer Seamon lives in Port Washington, L.I., talks from his den to people all over the world through his single-sideband amateur radio station. One result of his hobby: putting through phone "patches" so servicemen overseas can talk to their families; last month he helped a professor in South Africa get a message to his son in The Bronx...
...doing this week's cover story, Writer Seamon drew on 40,000 words of research from Show Business Reporters Serrell Hillman, Dorothea Bourne and Ruth Brine, who spent a total of 30 hours with their subject. Dick Seamon, a newsman who can write equally well about Willie Mays, Shirley MacLaine or Anne Bancroft, epitomizes TIME'S regard for versatility and breadth, is a modern, journalistic example of the sort of writer Ben Jonson admired some 350 years ago. Wrote Jonson: "And though a man be more prone and able for one kind of writing than another...
...Complicated Canon. Hedley is known at Mills as a courtly, gentle man with a lively interest in a number of things, from electric trains (five in the basement) and cats (there were once 17) to archaeology and tennis. He speaks half a dozen languages and is a prolific writer of books (eleven), sermons and speeches. Says former Mills President Lynn White: "He can turn out 24 clean limericks an hour." Says another colleague: "George Hedley can call more bishops and baseball players by their first names than anyone else I know. He is like St. Paul in meeting people where...
JAMES JOYCE, by Richard Ellmann. A difficult man and difficult writer, along with his companions, family and endless personal and artistic crises, is documented with scrupulous care in the year's best literary biography...
...AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MARK TWAIN, edited by Charles Neider. The latest edition of Sam Clemens' massive, sprawling recollections gives a fascinating picture of the writer whom T. S. Eliot characterized thus: "The adult side of him was boyish. Only the boy in him, that was Huck Finn, was adult...