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...guests of onetime Manhattan Society Reporter Lucius Beebe and Author Charles Clegg. The occasion: their purchase and revival of the long-defunct old sagebrush weekly, The Territorial Enterprise, in which Mark Twain got his first byline in 1863. Among the new contributing staff: Walter Van Tilburg Clark and Bernard DeVoto...
When "A World I Never Made" first appeared. Pulitzer prize-winning historian Bernard DeVoto said in the Saturday Review of Literature that it is "Presented with ecstasy... Goes beyond 'Stads Lonigan...
...series of columns reprinted from Harpers. Bernard DeVoto discusses America's noblest institution. The Cocktail Hour, and the patriot's responsibility...
...drinking martinis. And it may be all right for the man who has the entire evening free. The people who would say that the correct proportion is six or even seven to one, and the correct time 5:30 p.m. will disagree sharply here as I do, but DeVoto pays them no attention. To him, they are persons who have gone "through ignorance or unfortunate upbringing, not wickedness...
...DeVoto has something to say, and he says it well. He writes tenderly of something that is dear to him. If we disagree in details, it is only as we disagree with a man who prefers redheaded women rather than blondes. We must be thankful for his well-expressed sentiments and heed his call, for it is our heritage...