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...COMING FORTH BY DAY OF OSIRIS JONES-Conrad Aiken-Scribner...
...Author. Conrad Potter Aiken. 42, shares some obvious likenesses with his hero: son of a doctor, he was born in Savannah, Ga., has lived abroad, has sandy hair. When he was 11, Aiken saw his father kill his mother and then commit suicide. He was Class Poet (1911) at Harvard, among a generation that included Poets Thomas Stearns Eliot, the late Alan Seeger, Journalists Walter Lippmann, Robert Benchley, Heywood Broun, the late Radical John Reed. Few graduates stick to their undergraduate determination to be a man of letters: Aiken did. Last year, after reaping the Pulitzer Prize for his Selected...
...either refuses or fails to perform, he is automatically thrown out. Some Horrible Hemingways: George Newell Armsbyt vice president of Bancamerica-Blair Corp., and his brother James, San Francisco canner; Reginald Vaughan, San Francisco attorney; James John Walker, Mayor of New York; Cinemactors Jack Holt and Ernest Torrence; Con Conrad, song writer, who supplied the words for the Hemingway anthem : We are the Hemingways The Horrible Hemingways We'd rob the blind man of his cup Or steal a baby's milk You'd think...
...journey. The author has the fortunate quality of being able to concentrate the action of the trip without robbing the account of its reality. In fact, the effect of reality is the book's major triumph. While the author cannot be compared to such a man as Conrad in conveying atmosphere and background, in giving a living, accurate, and effective picture of his subject Mr. Duguid's style is worthy of more than a passing note it is not beyond reason to say that he is a writer of promising potentialities, it he chooses to use them, we may expect...
...passing S. A. it might be ... oh, very beautiful. . . ." The Author- Ford Madox Hueffer changed his name to Ford in 1919, "for family reasons." Born in England (1873) of a German father, he loved Germany but during the War fought in the English army. With his good friend Joseph Conrad he collaborated on two novels: The Inheritors (1901), Romance (1903). After the War he wrote two angry novels (never published), intended to write more but changed his mind. Ford considers England will not be normal again till a new generation has grown up. He divides his time between Manhattan...