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These descriptions became part of the carefully nurtured legend of Alexander Woollcott. The legend was no more varied than the man. Despite his activities as dramacritic, radio raconteur, cinemactor, women's club lecturer, magazine contributor, author (While Rome Burns, etc.), playwright, Broadway actor, he achieved his greatest success in the tireless, diverse role of Alexander Woollcott-a complex of childish petulance, fierce, blind loyalties, sentimental sophistication, and a cannibalistic curiosity about people and things...
...Said one contributor, Editor Paul B. Williams of the Utica (N.Y.) Press, who took a personal poll in upstate New York: "Concerning relations between . . . the U.S. and states seeking to achieve economic and political independence, notably China and India, the replies were remarkably vague. The most illuminating answer came from a prosperous Welsh dairyman who said: 'Can we teach a man like Gandhi to wear britches...
...contributor among the Houses so far is Lowell with $496, although in pledges both Eliot and Winthrop lead the Bellboys with $996 and $959 respectively. The total of the pledges made thus at registration is almost nine thousand dollars...
...Contributor. In Los Angeles, 90-year-old C. H. Sholes offered his iron bedstead to the scrap drive, explained: "I shall not need it very long anyhow...
...more reserved optimism is shown by Professor Kotschig of Smith, who discussed "Educational Reconstruction." He describes the encouraging abundance of natives, exiles, and hyphenated Americans who are qualified to reconstruct the minds of Europe's enslaved out of the post-war chaos (a chaos which Kotsching is the sole contributor to foresee.) However his belief in German willingness'to learn strikes an all-too-familiar note...