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...wrote to Dorothy Dix, Anne Hirst, Beatrice Fairfax, et al., to ask what to do about a boy of eleven who was unstrung, disobedient and disrespectful, who stole and refused to do homework. (She took these symptoms from an actual case, whose real trouble, she explains, was that he was unloved.) Some suggested punishment or a stiff school far from home. Beatrice Fairfax sternly warned against psychiatry. Elsie Robinson (author of I Wanted Out) gave what Mrs. Steiner considers the only ethical answer: "The problem of a disobedient child is far too delicate and complicated to be solved...
Wilson (Alexander Knox, et al., popular price run: TIME...
Wilson (Alexander Knox et al., popular price run; TIME...
Most of summer radio's other hopefuls were drooping on the vines, too. When the high-priced September to May regulars (Jack Benny, Bob Hope, et al) went vacationing, their topflight writers and producers went too. Summer's second-drawer big names had second-drawer scripts. Some of the resulting bigger busts...
Instead of smalltime bylines, American Weekly will henceforth parade such high-priced talent as Fannie Hurst, John Erskine, Paul Gallico, Damon Runyon, et al, from Hearst's Cosmopolitan circuit...