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...Author. Serious, conscientious Erich Maria Remarque worked hard on The Road Back, was dissatisfied with the ending and finally decided to change it, land on account of his lungs. Walter Winchell, Manhattan colyumist (Daily Mirror), did not improve his reputation for veracity when he helped circulate the rumor that Remarque's real name is Kramer (Remarque spelled backwards). Mobilized at 18, Remarque was repeatedly wounded on the Western Front. The War, which maimed his hand, put an end to his ambition to become a pianist. He does not regard himself as a literary man, says both his books...
Peggy Bacon, a slant-chinned young woman with a keen eye, a quick brain, confined her satire at the Downtown Galleries last week largely to the critics and dealers of the New York art world. Shrewdly drawn pastels in good color showed Colyumist Heywood Broun towering like a huge bundle of dirty linen over a frail typewriter; Critic Royal Cortissoz (Herald Tribune) scowling over his goatee and cigar at a modernist painting; Murdock Pemberton (New Yorker) bilious in a blue suit; dimple-chinned Henry McBride (Sun) delicately balancing a teacup; and dozens more...
Addressing the Rochester (N. Y.) Chamber of Commerce last week, Arthur Brisbane, Hearst colyumist, had this to say about Alfred Emanuel Smith, long-time Hearst foe: "Any Democrat nominated [for President in 1932] in opposition to the wishes of Smith will be defeated. Smith is the head of the Democratic party in America. There is only one real live issue before the people and that is Prohibi- tion. Prohibition of itself isn't enough, but the corruption it has encouraged among our police is the outrage...
...Treat," To speed his employer's friend Arthur Brisbane (see p. 48) from the National Aircraft Show at Detroit to the Ford plant at Dearborn, Henry Ford's Chief Engineer William Benson Mayo despatched one of their trimotored planes. Wrote Colyumist Brisbane of the flight: "Pilot William W. Mounts invites you to take the controls, not, however, letting go of the dual set himself. The plane puts its nose down, then puts it up, then turns on its side, going 130 miles an hour. That is supposed to be a great treat. It's a mistaken supposition...
...Colyumist Phillips' offering that day was a "letter" from President Hoover, inviting Bryan Untiedt, 13-year-old hero of the school-bus catastrophe in Colorado (TIME. April 6, 13), to visit the White house. Excerpt...