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...liquor. Mammon showers him with gold, distracts him with a nasty number named Lily, wins him from his garret with commissions to paint a portrait of Mrs. Colfax-Baxter, a study in oils of Mr. Palmiston's Derby winner, Blue Bolt. When wife (Rosalind Russell) and crony (Robert Benchley) walk out on him, taking much of life's beauty and all of its humor back to Washington Square, Painter Montgomery hits the skids. Near bottom his eye lights on a ghetto lad selling flowers. He collars him, explains to the boy's dubious mother that he wants...
...species of rosefish has been named Neomerinthe hemingwayi in his honor. His business trips are chiefly to Manhattan, where, shying away from tea-fighting literary circles, he sees only Scribners' Editor Max Perkins (whose decorous office framed the Hemingway-Max Eastman brawl of last August), old friends Robert Benchley, Waldo Peirce, F. Scott Fitzgerald, few others. Contributor of a monthly page to Esquire up to a couple of years ago, it is said he is soon to become a regular correspondent of the nearly-nascent Esquire-owned magazine Ken (TIME, Sept. 20). A Roman Catholic, he is also very...
Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, Chairman, Charles Reeder '38, Richard S. Benner '39, Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Robert Sears...
Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, president of the "Lampoon," undergraduate humorous publication, brought out the fact, never publicly admitted before that material that most people consider dull, is what Lampy likes best, while Alvah W. Sulloway '38, head of the Advocate, declared that his magazine was designed both for people who wanted to write, and for people with ideas...
Other speakers who are scheduled to talk about their organizations include the publications chiefs, Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, of the Lampoon, Alvah W. Sulloway '38, of the Advocate, John L. Saltonstall, Jr. '39, of the Monthly, Frank P. Davidson '39, of the Guardian, and Caspar W. Weinberger '38, of the CRIMSON...