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BEFORE I FORGET - Burton Rascoe- Doubleday, Doran...
...Burton Rascoe has always been a bright boy. As an urchin in Kentucky, a lad in Oklahoma, a stripling in Chicago, a young man in Manhattan he showed the same kind of promise as the Napoleonic private with a marshal's baton in his knapsack. On the U. S. literary front of 15 years ago, if they wanted a man to encourage the van or to harass the foe from the rear, Burton Rascoe was just the man. This week, when he published his long-promised reminiscences, he was no longer even a front-line sentinel. The tide...
Voluble, enthusiastic, intellectually naive, Before I Forget, especially in its earlier sections, is an appealing record of how a bright, ambitious local boy can fool the city slickers by making good. On the whole, it is a saddening commentary on the changes & chances of U. S. literary life. Burton Rascoe's 44-year-old writing is a shocking reflection on his newspaper training. Such sentences as these, though not typical, are fairly representative: "My grandmother's conversation with, and admonitions to, me were never prefaced by, or attended with, those proverbs from, or references to, the Bible, which...
Another explanation of the drooping stockmarket arrived from Britain last week in a fortnightly letter published by Silverston & Co., London brokers. Written by W. B. Burton-Baldry. a genial Silverston partner who sprinkles his work with classical quotations and likes to spend his vacations in the U. S., the letter suggested that in view of the fact that the London Stock Exchange had just enjoyed the worst three-week break since the War, Britain could do worse than get itself an SEC. Wrote sarcastic Broker Burton-Baldry...
...surprise guest at the party was one of the Interstate Commerce Commission's investigators, H. G. Cunningham, currently helping Montana's Senator Burton Kendall Wheeler in collecting pages for the annals of Van Sweringen railroad financing. Like the newshawks, Mr. Cunningham was free to see what was going on in Alleghany Corp. The next day Messrs. Young, Kolbe & Kirby were due in Washington for a session with Senator Wheeler's investigating committee. Said Mr. Young at his party: "We have nothing to hide...