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When they bought the old farm, their friend Carl Van Doren gave them curt advice: "Pave it." Instead they let their next-door neighbor work it; now the place pays. Around home Gould is a relaxed, ruminative, cigarette-puffing host, lets his handsome, smartly dressed wife do much of the talking. The Goulds entertain simply, serve "a" cocktail, and, like a good Journal family, live well within their combined salaries of around $75,000 a year...
...PORTABLE SWIFT (601 pp.)-Edited by Carl Van Doren-Viking...
...world of Lemuel Gulliver is one of the permanent and self-contained creations of literature. But it has a context, and the context enriches it. In reprinting Gulliver's Travels entire for this "portable" edition, Editor Van Doren has surrounded it with earlier and later examples of the prose of Jonathan Swift-a prose that for polished, deadly decorum and energy in satire no writer has ever equaled. Van Doren's introduction also supplies the chief facts about the battles -literary and political-in which Swift fought with all his gall...
...financial troubles delayed the next issue for nearly a year. The fifth Wake, a 90-page number devoted entirely to works and criticism of E. E. Cummings, came out in the spring of 1946. In addition to Cummings, John Dos Passos '16, Theodore Spencer, Wallace Stevens, and Mark Van Doren contributed. Copies of the issue, which sold over 2000 in the U.S. and Europe, are now collectors' items...
...George Wythe, John Blair, James Wilson, Jacob Broom, and Daniel of St. Thomas Jenifer (mentioned in Carl Van Doren's recent book, The Great Rehearsal) were...