Word: bookman
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Buff" Cobb did not permit college proms and parades to trample, nor her father's literary cigar smoke to stifle, her dancing spark of originality. She irreverently wrote in the Bookman, when she should have been thinking that the Bad Boys of the oldtime Smart Set were Great Intellects...
Lovers of the true and the beautiful will agree with the Bookman in its suggestion that, for the good of American literature and increased sales, certain authors forbid the dissemination of their photographs. One cannot look at Joseph Hergesheimer for any length of time and still remain confident in the belief that he has taken tea with Corrine Griffith as many times as he says he has. Christopher Morley undoubtedly has a very kind face but he does not appear to be as whimsical as his publisher's blurbs would have led his readers to believe. And, as the Books...
Doran-Farrar. The Bookman since 1921 has been amiable, even pollyannaish. Ladies' literary clubs like it. Mr. Doran, long a friend to young novelists, found a kindly young disciple in Editor Farrar, redheaded, chipper, who could gently pat the backs of hopeful literati. To many, Critic Farrar is a promising second edition of Critic William Lyon Phelps. Mr. Farrar will continue to function as editorial director of the Doran book business, will also contribute to the Rascoefied Bookman "a department somewhat like Dr. Phelps's in Scribner's-only different...
Rascoe-Collins. The new owner-editors of the Bookman promise a magazine that will be enlarged to include "general ideas and culture." Burton Rascoe is not new on the U. S. literary scene. Born in Kentucky, he began to read Socrates and Kant at the age of 12. He was a reporter before becoming book critic for the Chicago Tribune and the New York Tribune. In 1924, the Bookman said of him: "As a human being, he possesses not even rudimentary principles; and as a critic he hasn't any esthetic standards." The Bookman accused him of commercialism, credited...
Born. To Editor John Chipman Farrar of the Bookman (see p. 23) and Margaret Petherbridge Farrar, co-author of the crossword puzzle, a son, John Chipman Jr., "8 Ibs., red hair, light complected...