Word: clinton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...between are the books on U. S. politics which really sell and make money. Most publishers suppose the public is not deeply interested in its national scene. The House of Putnam considers its Mirrors of Washington by Clinton Wallace Gilbert highly successful because 62,891 copies have been sold in ten years. When in 1926 Samuel Hopkins Adams cast the scandals of the Harding era into fiction, his Revelry found 96,000 buyers. Frank Richardson Kent's tart, authoritative The Great Game of Politics has sold but 8,660 copies in four years...
...Times ("one of the few really distinguished looking men in Washington") is described as supplying his paper with "front" for $25,000 per year. The New York Herald Tribune's Washington news "is inclined to be sensational and trivial." Mark Sullivan has sunk into "a Republican propaganda medium." Clinton Wallace Gilbert "is one of the few nationally known Washington correspondents who has not compromised his personal or professional integrity, never fawned or groveled." The few other reporters who received praise-Messrs. Ross, Anderson, Pearson, Murphy et al.-are, by no great coincidence, members of the Georgetown Group...
...Clinton Wallace Gilbert denies authorship of Mirrors of 1932, is reported vexed at whatever person "stole" his "Mirrors" title. Publisher George Palmer Putnam noncommittally says he "fathered" Mirrors of 1932 (also Mirrors of Washington), declines to reveal the "mother...
...sitting like a calm Mephistopheles amid blazing, thundering cascades of sparks 30 ft. long, Tesla currents alternating at such prodigious frequency that they would not harm a kitten. But instead they found him, not without some difficulty, in seclusion on the 20th floor of Manhattan's Hotel Governor Clinton. Pale but healthy, thin to ghostlincss but strong and alert as ever, he received his callers in quiet. His , hair is slate grey, overhanging eyebrows almost black. His eyes are blue. Only their sparkle and the shrillness of his voice indicate his psychic tension. He wore an ordinary U. S. business...
...Hotel Governor Clinton where he now lives, if someone rings him up on the telephone or knocks at his door and j he does not want to answer, he locks himself in the bathroom, turns the water loudly on. He is very sensitive to sensory stimuli. When he gets excited, blinding lights flash through his mind. He retreats to bed. A lifelong bachelor, habitually he goes to bed at 5:30 a. m., rises at 10:30 a. m. But he does not sleep the whole period. Proudly, yet almost plaintively, he explains: "I roll around and work...