Word: devoto
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Also ran through DeVoto's "Forays and Rebuttals", recently off the presses of Little, Brown and Company in Boston. A very interesting collection of his essays and articles on literature, history, education. Enjoyed the long chapter entitled "The Centennial of Mormonism" about Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Mormons are not necessarily polygamists etc. Joseph Smith found the golden tablets of the Angel Moroni on a hilltop in Palmyra, New York. When the Vagabond was little he went to Palmyra once, on Decoration Day, to see an auto-race...
...Bernard DeVoto began last month as editor of one of America's least read magazines, the Saturday Review of Literature. The Saturday Review of Literature is the kind of magazine you find on public library tables and under the green-shaded gas lamps of the aged but literate spinsters of Beacon Hill. It is ever so slightly intellectual, and ever so slightly classy...
...Bernard DeVoto should do things with it. He is a man who loves an upset. When he edited the Harvard Graduates' Magazine he offended so many old grads so indiscriminately that they demanded his resignation. But when he quit the number of cancelled subscriptions spelled death for the Magazine. He has been treating the readers of the S. R. L. for two or three years now, to excellent although infrequent reviews of headline books. As editor there are possibilities before him which may make the Saturday Review a critical organ without parallel in this country...
...Vagabond's best wishes then, to Mr. DeVoto and the Saturday Review. They have a chance for fame and influence, a chance that should be seized upon avidly for the sake of culture in America...
...which gathers yearly for this occasion, represents a unique group in literary history. So far as is known, it forms the only alumni society ever dedicated to a living man. The members, all former pupils of Copey, include such men as Walter D. Edmonds, Walter Lippmam, Heywood Broun. Bernard DeVoto, Donald Moffat, and Oliver LaFarge...