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William Rose Benet suffers less successfully in "The Phoenix Nest"(which should, of course, have become "The Mare's Nest"). The first part of this article on Poetry is better than the second which goes Esquirish in its strain for 'satire'. George Jean Nathan comes out second best too, despite the fact that his parodist has chosen a subject close to the Nathan heart. Neither the virility. nor yet the scurrility of Nathan's style is well imitated...
...exception of the famed Personals) put together. Morley's column has to be read to be believed, and so long as it stays in it will continue to frighten away any serious and intelligent audience. In the second place he can get competent reviewers (not criticasters like the Benet boys and Bill Phelps and former editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There is nowhere among American publications today that you can go to find out the real truth and the whole truth about current publications. The New York Times and the New York Herald-Tribune...
...Benet resigned as Hotchkiss managing director before he left, but his permanent successor has not yet been named. The company's most profitable product is its machine gun, invented by Benjamin Berkeley Hotchkiss about the same time Maxim and Catling were devising their early weapons. The present Hotchkiss is a magnificent piece of engineering capable of 600 shots per minute. Other arms are manufactured and also automobiles, but the machine gun is the product that really enabled Hotchkiss & Cie. to earn as much as 23,500,000 francs in the late 1920's. Last year's report...
...Benets are not returning to a strange land. Almost yearly they have traveled to the U. S., spending much of their time in Washington, where Mrs. Benet was born & reared as Georgetown's Margaret Cox, and where Mr. Benet-belongs to clubs like the Army & Navy and the Metropolitan. In Washington they will make their home...
...Manhattan last week rich old Mr. Benet parried interviewers with: "Why should you want to write about me? I'm just a horny-handed engineer. I'm not interesting. My nephews are." Nephews are Poets William Rose Benet and Stephen Vincent Benet...