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...former Margaret Montgomery of Augusta, Ga. she "is a second cousin of both Bill McGovern and Writer Aldous Huxley...
...Brown ($2.50). This mixed up English story begins promisingly as a tale of revolutionary adventure and buried gold in Mexico, soon turns into a monotonous thesis novel in which the principals form a new international order, build a retreat financed by the buried gold, debate communism, fascism, religion with Aldous Huxley's pacifism, little...
Nevertheless, when no less a savant than Aldous Huxley went to Hollywood, he tried to find out just what made Walt Disney do the kind of work he does. Mr. Disney was not much help. "Hell, Doc," he said, knitting his eloquent brows, "I don't know. We just try to make a good picture. And then the professors come along and tell us what...
...Madariaga will be going on about The Future of Liberty, and Ludwig Lewisohn will be holding forth on books. In Grand Rapids, Walter Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty) will be talking on The Art of Relaxation, and in Brooklyn, Dr. Houston Peterson (The Melody of Chaos) will discuss Aldous Huxley. Martha Gellhorn talks that week in Chicago, Younghill Kang (The Grass Roof) in Wheeling, W. Va., and Captain John D. Craig (Adventure in Haiti) in Ann Arbor, Mich. In addition there will be a number of lectures belonging to the Great Question Mark school of public speaking, with David Seabury...
...Wells spoke seven times, made $21,000. Next spring Thomas Mann will get $15,000 for his 15 lectures. For the 23 lectures on Sinclair Lewis' crowded schedule, he will get $23,000. Although their agent makes the rates of such headliners as Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt and Aldous Huxley a carefully guarded secret, their net return will probably not equal the $33,000 that Dale Carnegie will be paid for his 55 inspirational talks in 55 towns...