Word: authority
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...came to this country from Hungary two years ago, after living in Budapost during the war and during the long siege of that city by the Russians. His father is Lajos Zilahy, author of 1943 best seller, "The Dukays." Michael was an only...
There is some justification for pointing up Lewis, and the author documents it: "In the year of 1937 John L. Lewis and his activities took in the New York Times 99,816 column inches or 4.2 percent of the total news coverage for the year, foreign or domestic. This meant that about one-twentieth of the New York Times day in and day out was devoted to Lewis and his operations." Lewis is now, and always has been, a big man in American unionism: this cannot be denied, even by his most rabid enemy. But a good biographer must balance...
...Fulton County jury sat in Atlanta's county courthouse last week to consider the death of the famed author of Gone With the Wind, Margaret Mitchell...
...Fallen Idol. Author Graham Greene and Director Carol Reed wring suspense from the story of a small boy (Bobby Henrey) in a world of adult intrigues; with Ralph Richardson and Michele Morgan (TIME, April...
...Author Vittorini, who was a Fascist in his youth, wrote In Sicily in 1937, when he was in the process of becoming a Communist. That may explain the midsection rhetoric. Only a fine natural gift explains the rest-and the best-of his story...