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...York Herald Tribune's Joe Alsop contributed a brisk piece on U.S. foreign policy; Christopher Isherwood drew an amusing portrait of Los Angeles. But to the average U.S. reader, at least, most of the 20 bylines in the 160-page, all-American number were unknown.They belonged to the rarefied atmosphere of the little magazines and literary groups to which Connolly gravitated on a trip to the U.S. last winter. Horizon's 3,300 American readers would find the picture of the U.S. disappointingly familiar. H. L. Mencken, Sinclair Lewis, Erskine Caldwell et al. had painted most...
...most readers, home was never like this. Before the Alsop children were permitted to dress, they were required to chin themselves three times. French, German and Latin were taught at home and they had to memorize poetry in all three languages. Competence at the piano, drawing, dancing and sewing were required and so was excellence at swimming, riding and tennis. Father didn't ask the impossible, but he expected all of his children to be in the first ten in their classes at Packer Collegiate Institute. When Gulielma was too ill to do homework, she was told to maintain...
Deer Creek is by no means this year's version of life with father. Miss Alsop writes with great charm of city life in Brooklyn and country life in Pennsylvania, of the place that the church and religion had in the life of half a century ago. Readers will find a rounded picture of a full and satisfying kind of U.S. family life that is rapidly dying...
...make Gulielma and Mary aware that the present was never static, their young minds were constantly fed new thought. Gulielma Alsop sharply remembers the evening my father looked up at me from his book...
...Columnists Joseph and Stewart Alsop...