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...most brilliant literary journals, the English Review (London, circa 1909) and the Transatlantic Review (Paris, circa 1923). He possessed a rare perception of genius in others. The list of writers Ford published early reads like a mail-order come-on to some 20th century great-writers anthology: Conrad, Galsworthy, Pound, E.M. Forster, Hardy, H.G. Wells, Henry James, Wyndham Lewis, James Joyce, and a chesty 25-year-old American whom Ford enraged by referring to as "young Hemingway." "Hurray!" H.G. Wells once shouted at a dinner for Ford. "Fordie's discovered another genius! Called D.H. Lawrence...
...CONRAD N. DE GENNARO Springfield...
...attracting tourists to a bathing spa. Dr. Stockmann (Stephen Elliott), the spa medical adviser, discovers that the town's waters are polluted. Stockmann assumes that his brother Peter, the mayor (Philip Bosco), will start an immediate cleanup. Peter adamantly refuses. The doctor believes that a liberal publisher (Conrad Bain) and his crusading editor (David Birney) will print the truth. They turn against him. He tries to rally the populace and is reviled as An Enemy of the People. At play's end, the town is morally polluted by the fraud it has elected to live...
...sure target. They decided to award him their "Second Annual Dr. Strangelove Award" at a panel titled (ironically) "Is There a Generation Gap in Science?" Word of the impending action spread well in advance, and by early afternoon the Upper Summit Room at the top of the Conrad Hilton Hotel was packed with some 600 people. It was the best-attended panel of the entire...
THAT evening, Dr. Teller agreed to meet with some of the S. E. S. P. A. people, and anyone else who happened by, in a tiny, gray, glaringly lit bedroom somewhere in the dim innards of the Conrad Hilton. His bodyguards were relegated to the hallway, playing cards, while a mixture of radicals and others, totaling twenty or so, crowded into the room which Teller, with his enormous frame, dominated easily. The session appeared to be chaired by a lady in heavy makeup whose main job seemed to be keeping tempers cool...