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...Joyce], the grandson of one of the greatest modern painters [Henri Matisse], and the great, "great, great, great, and ad infinitum grandson of God [i.e., the son of the Aga Khan]." But the days of ancestor worship are more or less over, and in point of prestige, the Harvard clubman has become the vanishing American. Once, Theodore Roosevelt, 1880, could happily blurt to the Kaiser that his son-in-law was Porcellian ("A mighty satisfactory thing to be in the Pore"). In 1954, such fathers-in-law are rare...
...editors have overlooked a few terms that yield to none in setting the teeth to grinding . . . The use of 'bobble' for error has a high rasping content, while 'Senior Circuit' for American-or is it National?-League has a suggestion of pomposity, like an overstuffed clubman in an overstuffed chair." Other Trib selections: "hits the hoop" (for shooting baskets), "squared circle" (boxing ring), "spouted claret" (bleeding), "comeback trail...
Albert Anastasia, a murderous slob in clubman's clothes, dropped in at the New York State Crime Commission hearings on waterfront corruption one afternoon last week. It was a most dramatic moment. As "Lord High Executioner" of Brooklyn's old Murder, Inc., Anastasia superintended the assassinations of 63 of his fellowmen; as a tycoon of crime, today he is the very epitome of these violent, callous and imperious criminals whose word is the only law on Greater New York's 770 miles of piers...
...Clubman. In Santa Monica, Calif., exActress Judith Barrett, suing for divorce, charged that millionaire husband Lindsay Howard, a member of the "Vikings Club," always fought a losing battle to uphold the club motto: "A Viking can always drink one more...
Finley has attempted to dispel the myth-that Eliot is a clubman's haven. Although it does have an above-average proportion of prep school graduates...