Word: burnett
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nourished some of the major talents of a past generation. To St. Nicholas in 1886 young Richard Harding Davis sold his first story, about football at Princeton. For St. Nicholas Rudyard Kipling wrote Just So Stories, Mark Twain Tom Sawyer Abroad, Louisa May Alcott Under the Lilacs, Frances Hodgson Burnett Little Lord Fauntleroy...
Gorgeous Bachelor Girl Gail Allen (Madeleine Carroll) was doing just about as well bossing a Fifth Avenue department store as British Cinemactress Carroll is doing in U. S. pictures. Gail knew all the answers and none of them was masculine. But when cocksure Bill Burnett (self-consciously cute Fred MacMurray) blew in from Bali like a tropical monsoon, scripters were hard put to it to keep him from thawing icy Gail too fast, convincing her too soon that woman's place is in the home when not in the maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending...
...those days we had on the big and busy staff Lee Stowe, now one of the Herald Tribune's ace men in Europe; Elliot Paul, whose latest novel you favorably review in the same issue; Whit Burnett and Martha Foley who left the Herald to start Story, a fine magazine still flourishing despite trans-plantings from Vienna to Majorca to New York; Will Barber, posthumously awarded a Pulitzer Prize for his work in Abyssinia...
Like many humorists. Editor Burnett has a few subjects he wants to write about in dead earnest. The result-as when, for example, he praises Ignazio Silone, author of Bread and Wine (TIME, April 5, 1937), or denounces fascism-is that his language, instead of acquiring gravity, stiffens with awkwardness, like a comedian at a funeral...
...test of an editor's humor comes, of course, in his attitude toward manuscripts. Editor Burnett's advise to authors: do not write farm novels, family chronicles, trilogies, books about childhood, adolescence, abortions; do not write about neurotics ("self-love's labor lost"), and, if you are a young Armenian, stop writing imitations of Saroyan...