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...cities sprang to their files of politicians, Legionnaires, churchmen and clubwomen who can always be counted on to say the right thing. They were asked if they liked "filthy books." They didn't. Neither did such writers as Faith Baldwin (Men Are Such Fools') and Clarence Buddington Kelland (The Little Moment of Happiness), whose opinions were splashed across Page One. Next came front-page editorials demanding that erring novelists and their publishers of "best-smellers" be brought to law. Only Edmund Wilson's Memoirs of Hecate County was mentioned specifically; but there were also cracks at "Forever...
Thin, pale, 50-year-old Djuna Barnes was born in Cornwall-on-the-Hudson. Her father was a jack of all talents who played five musical instruments, so disliked his father that he changed his name Buddington to Barnes. Djuna was named after Prince Djalma in The Wandering Jew, but her young brother's mispronunciation changed everything. She prefers to call herself The Barnes...
...from $5,000 to $250,000 a year at their trade. Incorrigible highbrows criticize the Post's taboos (par for middle-class conception of decency anywhere), complain that in its non-fiction no intellectual rivers are ever set afire, in its fiction no Buddenbrooks appear among the Clarence Buddington Kellands. This is old stuff to Editor Stout's staff. Nowadays they respond simply by handing out a reprint of Bernard DeVoto's sensible piece on Writing for Money, printed in the Saturday Review last year...
...Coach Fesler used 15 men in all. Princeton managed to work 11 players into the game. Leading their scorers was Walter Woodward, bespectacled guard who dropped in two field goals and eight fouls for a total of eight points. HARVARD PRINCETON Lowman (Grondahl, Kuhn, Shirk), l.f. l.f., Vruwink (Fallon, Buddington) White (McGowan, Heckel), r.f. r.f. Woodward (Parker, Givens) Gray (Herrick), c. c., Sauter Struck (Dampeer, Snell), r.g. r.g., Hobler (Parker) Lupien (Wills, Litman), l.g. l.g., Scofield (Hill...
Goals--White, 4; Lowman, 3; McGowan, Gray, Scofield, Woodward, 2; Grondahl, Struck, Dampeer, Snell, Lupien, Sauter, Vruwink, Buddington...