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...wobbly line), examined Greer Carson's knees after an Eastern stocking designer called her knock-kneed (no knock), inspected the redecorated ladies' room at Romanoff's restaurant (Hedy Lamarr was surprised to meet him there) and played bit parts in six movies. For his brash, brisk reporting about these unlikely activities and more consequential news of Hollywood, 39-yearold Erskine Johnson has become one of Hollywood's most widely read male columnists, earns about $35,000 a year (including radio and TV appearances...
...belief in Greek is greater than ever," said 84-year-old Gilbert Murray, who 45 years ago served as model for Shaw's brash young classicist. Murray, an author and statesman and, until his resignation in 1936, Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford, is one of the few men left in a mechanistic age who still "know Greek" and believes in it as part of the education of the full...
...Until it folded on the eve of World War II, The Criterion, though its circulation never exceeded 900, was one of the most distinguished literary magazines in the English-speaking world.*In its first issue (March 3, 1923). baffled, brash, bumptious TIME reported that The Waste Land was rumored to have been written as a hoax. *Alec Guinness, Irene Worth, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Ernest Clark and Grey Blake. *Not a badly lined pocket, as poets' pockets go. Friends estimate that Eliot makes about ?4,000 ($11,200) a year, including some ?2,500 of royalties from his books...
...problem of the writer who has copy paper, a late-model portable, an old farm in Connecticut, a nice wife, the right agent, and no ideas. The fellow need not worry, since Analyst Bergler finds that he can cure nearly 100% of such cases, and says so in a brash passage recalling the palmy days of the old sure-cure Indian remedies...
Love & Hate. Close associates say that Godfrey's contrariness is his outstanding characteristic. His Girl Friday, Margaret ("Mug") Richardson, says: "Arthur's contradictions are the only thing close to talent he's got." He is confusingly shy one minute and brash the next, sentimental and savage, generous and stingy, as quick to unreasoning affection as unreasoning dislike. Said one bruised ex-friend: "Arthur either starts off with great loves and then hates people, or with great hates and then loves them." He also has a sense of proportion that is all his own. The man who wept...