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...once said, rather cruelly, of a man whose only master and major interest for most of his 68 years has been the U. S. Government. Last week he, Major General Enoch Herbert Crowder (retired), handed in his resignation as U. S. Ambassador to Cuba. He will leave this post on Sept. 1 to practice law in Chicago. His successor has not yet been designated...
...Enoch Arnold Bennett, novelist: "Last week I published some paragraphs in the London Evening Standard. 'I am willing,' I wrote, 'to concede arguments to the effect that Einstein is endowed with a more prodigious intellect than any in the history of the race, that Shakespeare stands alone and that Abraham Lincoln stands alone, but I implacably affirm that a greater novel than The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoievsky has yet to be written.' I then rounded out the dozen greatest-in-my-opinion novels of all time. They included, in order, three more by Dostoievsky, three...
Otto Hermann Kahn, Manhattan financier-art-patron: "Word came-from London that I had chartered the Duke of Westminster's yacht, Flying Cloud, a sailing ship with auxiliary engines, for a cruise from Sicily in April, to Athens, the Greek islands and Venice, with guests: Novelists (Enoch) Arnold Bennett and David Gray, Editor Frank Crowninshield of Vanity Fair and Artist Paul Dougherty...
...Cuba Enoch H. Crowder...
...Enoch Arnold Bennett, British journalist: "In criticism of U. S. book reviews I referred thus to U. S. Journalists George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken: 'These illustrious warriors are very readable. They are also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh...