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...plates of U. S. flags. He went into the commercial art business, finished up a year with a net loss of $17. Then he edited an electrical magazine, went to France on $700 as a self-appointed War correspondent. He got his job on the World through his friend Colyumist Franklin Pierce Adams to whose "Conning Tower" he had sent many a bright verse signed "Smeed," Deems spelled backwards. Since leaving the World in 1925 he has edited Musical America, written stories for a dozen different magazines, told stories over the radio. Peter Ibbetson he wrote at his Stamford, Conn...
...Colyumist K. C. B. thanks for a contemporary account of the Great Commoner's hypnotic power...
...Early in 1918 he visited the front lines of the French Army. He wrote some sonnets about what he saw and felt. Some of the verses, "At the Front . . . First Impressions," he gave to Franklin Pierce Adams ("F. P. A."), now the New York World's famed colyumist, then a staffman on The Stars & Stripes, the A. E. F. newspaper edited by Private Harold Ross (now editor of The New Yorker). But John Erskine's sonnets never appeared in The Stars & Stripes...
...Tower was transplanted in 1922 to the World, where it shared the feature page with Heywood Broun and Critic Alexander Woolcott until they departed. The Tower's following is a loyal one and accounts for much of the World's circulation among sophisticates. Famed contributors include Colyumist Adams' good friends Ring Lardner, John Held Jr., Dorothy Parker, Sigmund Spaeth, Groucho Marx, Samuel Hoffenstein, Arthur Guiterman, Newman Levy. Author-Lawyer Levy ("Flaccus") wrote in 1923 what has since become the Conning Tower's "most requested" poem for reprinting, a rollicking narrative called "Thai's." First stanza...
Phobias, which he hammers upon any day in the week, include dry-sweeping of sidewalks, invisible house-numbers, bad grammar and punctuation. Sharing Colyumist Adams' passion for poker are his brother members in the Thanatopsis Literary & Inside-Straight Club...