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...page interview with himself in issue No. 2, speculated that the angel might be "one of those Baltic barons" who married a rich American and, now that she has died and left him all her money, "doesn't know what to do with it." Wilson obviously thinks his bogus baron could do worse than to spend it supporting the Review. "God knows that some such thing is needed," said he. "The disappearance of the Times Sunday book section at the time of the printers' strike only made us realize it had never existed...
When Judy isn't scaring up a bogus Red-underground menace to get her man, the handsome Ugly American consul (Joseph Campanella), she drones through some tuneless tunes decomposed by Richard Rodgers' daughter Mary. The hula mob masses occasionally for dance gymnastics, the kind that gives playgoers clusterphobia...
Waring is the pseudonymous author of unusually bogus travel books, whose disappearance sets in motion an intricate clockwork of social comedy in prewar literary London. When this book was written (in 1938), Powell had just abandoned a novelist's apprenticeship as an employee of a London publisher. What's Become of Waring is thus a young man's gibe against his job. But the joke wears well, though its first U.S. publication is obviously based on Powell's present status as the author of The Music of Time, the series of books (six to date) that...
Like many of his literary predecessors, he ran away from school. The disguise he chose for his flight to Paris could hardly have been more bizarre. Modeled on that of a contemporary gas fitter, the costume consisted of a tall hat, long black overcoat, false mustache, a bag of bogus tools and a copy of The Gas World. But Paris looked at him with an indifference to match his own, and (less conspicuously dressed) he took off for points east with a donkey and a rather nutty companion who was a much more usual type of rebel, a romantic poseur...
...Hoover Commission on government reorganization called it "a loose confederation of independent agencies." The department's two main buildings in Washington contain a total of 4,844 rooms, eight miles of corridors. While Benson was Secretary, a counterfeiters' nest, complete with press and plates for printing bogus money, was discovered in one of the department's rooms. A sort of schizophrenia pervades the whole Agriculture Department atmosphere. Much of the department's funds and energies goes into trying to cope with overproduction-but agriculture also strives diligently to increase farm production through research. Back...