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Lush & Gush. By the time he was 35, Woollcott's lush, melodramatic writings were earning him $2,000 a month (from the New York Herald), while his passionate, often indiscriminate hero worship poured out in a gush of famed personality sketches for The New Yorker, Cottier's, the Saturday Evening Post. No superlatives were too strong for his variegated heroes and heroines. Walt Disney's Dumbo he termed "the best achievement yet reached in the Seven Arts since the first white man landed on this continent." The story of Lizzie Borden, the ax-murderess...
When Hearst lawyers stalled on bringing the action to trial Cottier's huff-puffed: "We take our courage in both hands and say 'boo.' '' The suit was mysteriously dropped...
...forthright words in one of his speeches. The muckrakers were abroad in the land and Taft lacked T. R.'s flair for handling them. The great "scandal" of his administration, and a chief cause of Roosevelt's resentment, was drummed up by Norman Hapgood of Cottier's against Secretary of the Interior Ballinger. Taft knew, and Pringle proves, that the evidence was inaccurate. Taft stuck by Ballinger and fired Roosevelt's protege, Gilford Pinchot, for joining in the clamor...
MIDNIGHT SAILING - Lawrence G. Blochman-Harcourt, Brace ($2). (Published serially in Cottier's as Sunset Voyage.) Swift skulduggery on a Japanese freighter; several murders, spies, missing military plans, a blackmailer, runaway heiress and smart newspaper man. Better than average...
Worthy running mate to Henry is a strange little character named Philbert in Cottier's. Spotted in the back of the magazine, as Henry was in Satevepost, Philbert also has scored spectacular results since his birth a year ago, will soon make his cinema debut...