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...embattled Fourth District of Connecticut became well-known all over the U.S. for the first time this autumn, as the whole New Deal poured money and speakers into Fairfield County to try to defeat her. Henry Wallace, Harold Ickes, Orson Welles, Clifton Fadiman and members of what Mrs. Luce called "the whole Broadway-Browder Axis" were all guest stars in the anti-Luce show. The President, himself, asked for her defeat and on election night, when the first returns seemed to augur defeat for the Congresswoman from Connecticut, Franklin Roosevelt told his Hyde Park neighbors: "I think [that] would...
...joined Novelists Dorothy Canfield and Christopher Morley, Litterateur Henry Seidel Canby, Informer Clifton Fadiman, as a life replace ment for the late Editor William Allen White...
...members replace Clifton Fadiman, Will D. Howe, and Burton E. Livingston. The other two members of the Book Committee are Irita Van Doren, literary editor of the New York Herald Tribune, and Dorothy Canfield Fisher, author and member of the Book of the Mouth Club's Committee on Selection. The members of the Book Committee volunteer their services in guiding the reading selections of the more than 90,000 members of Phi Beta Kappa for whom the "Key Reporter" is published...
...dinner. The guests were a Who's Who of crime fictioneers, included Frederic Dannay (coauthor, with Manfred Lee, of the "Ellery Queen" crime series), bearded Rex Stout (creator of orchidophilous Nero Wolfe), Christopher Morley (author of the theory that Sherlock Holmes was an American). Critic Clifton (Information Please) Fadiman, and General Motors Executive Edgar W. Smith, world's No. 1 nonliterary Sherlock Holmes enthusiast...
...territory. Does this mean that the U.S. could wash its hands of the whole business? Many Americans would like to think so. Those who believe that the answer to the German problem is extermination of the German people-the most vocal of whom are Littérateurs Clifton Fadiman and Rex Stout-have few supporters...