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...STRANGE CASE OF Miss ANNIE SPRAGG-Louis Bromfield-Stokes...
...Author. Louis Bromfield is one of those who live in Paris the better to get perspective on the American scene, but his origins are all-American. Born (1896) in Ohio of Boston-Maryland stock, he went to public schools, and to the Cornell Agricultural School. During the War he served with the French Army, in numerous sectors from Switzerland to the North Sea. He then resumed newspaper jobs in Manhattan, wrote up current theatre, worked on a music magazine...
...appropriately, this book on "Old Boston Taverns" issued by Butterfield's Bookshop on Bromfield street, has come to our attention. From its many illustrations and anecdotes, you can learn of long forgotten Red Lions, Greyhounds, Cromwell's Heads, and Green Dragons of Boston. A map, too, marks their sites. But do not try to seek them out. For with the recent demolition of the Sun Tavern and the Three Mariners the last of Boston's old taverns have gone. Now their place is taken by Waldorf Lunches, Chain cigar shops, and five-and-ten cent stores. And the taverns...
Among the more outstanding marks-men who have loosed the flight of slings and arrows at the ex-marine have been Heywood Broun, Louis Bromfield, Sinclair Lewis and H. L. Mencken. "One has only to contrast the interviews given by these two men, Dempsey and Tunney; one simple and profound, the other a mixture of bombast and cant," says one decrier of the literary note in Mr. Tunney's public statements. "A pugilist reading Hegel is about as appropriate as the dean of a woman's college singing. 'I'm Gonna Dance Wit' the Guy What Brung Me' says another...
John Anderson (New York Evening Post) : "Except for the slight but insuperable barrier of authorship I would have thought that Mr. Bromfield hadn't read The Green Bay Tree...