Word: apley
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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John Phillips Marquand, 45, is a tall, blue-eyed New Englander, a successful contributor to the Satevepost, who last year won literary as well as financial success with his best-selling novel, The Late George Apley...
Satevepost readers did not know that Author Marquand's original Wickford Point was twice as long and nearly twice as biting. This week the book appeared in its uncut form, promising to be another best-seller of the stature of The Late George Apley. Comparison of the two versions showed that the Post's seven installments accented Brill foibles, heightened the picturesqueness of the story, diluted its satire, toned down the dialogue ("so damn screwy" to "so queer"), cut out Narrator Calder's cynical reflections on love ("all lovers are consummate bores"), on writing popular fiction...
...manuscript of his first book, The Unspeakable Gentleman (1922) was lost from a Manhattan taxi; recovered weeks later, it made him a success. The next ten years he lived in Boston, becoming, he says, "something of an Apley himself." Now married to Adelaide Ferry Hooker (sister of Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3d), he spends his winters in a swanky Manhattan duplex apartment, his summers on an island farm near Newburyport...
Marquand received the Pulitzer Prize last year for his novel "The Late George Apley," which like his latest novel, concerns a Boston family with generations of Harvard graduates...
...managers will be: Adams, John F. Ambrose '41; Dunster, Richard B. Wolf '41; Kirkland, Richard S. Lane 41; Leverett, David Wells '41; Lowell, Walter A. Meier and Nathan Belfer '41; Winthrop John Donnel '40; and Apley-Claverly Dudley; Henry D. Wymer...