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...House of Lords Britain's most revered document came up for examination. As the Lords voted to lend the Lacock Abbey copy of the Great Charter to the U.S., their eye fell on a yoo-odd-year-old mistake. "Hard on the plain man" (says Philologist H. W. Fowler) but dear to the heart of many a Briton is the age-old habit of spelling it "Magna Charta" and pronouncing it "Magna Karta." Last week the Lord Chancellor invited the Lords to drop the h. They...
...Gene Fowler (Timber Line; Good Night, Sweet Prince, etc.). who once, in his maverick days, described himself as "an American peasant," is now an independent movie producer, and lives in a four-bedroom house of "West Los Angeles baroque" which, he says, looks like a Cunard liner. He used to write Hollywood movie scripts at $2.750 a week. Before that, as managing editor of the old New York American, he liked to lean back in his editorial chair and play an accordion to drown out the roaring of the Hearst press. Earlier still, as a wild young newspaperman in Denver...
...dead boy: Where has the young buck gone? Tell us where the long ride ends; say to us where the young buck has gone? It seemed to him "a goodbye to the West, a goodbye to youth. . . . I began to find a meaning of my own young years." Fowler trained in the same up-from-cops school of journalism as Ben Hecht. Stanley Walker and the late Courtney Ryley Cooper, whose credo is that the old bars were the best, and that the only thing to do with a tall tale is to make it taller. Solo has many moments...
Life without Father. Father's name was Devlan, not Fowler. He was an apprentice patternmaker in the machine shops of the Denver & Rio Grande Railroad. Mother sang a rich soprano in the choir of the Methodist Church. Not long after their marriage in 1889, Father decided that he had had all he could stand. Without even waiting to see whether the baby was a boy or a girl, he cleared out for the mountains of Clear Creek County, west of Denver. The boy grew up and never laid eyes on Charlie Devlan until he was 30 and Charlie...
...stepfather, Frank Fowler, who tried to make ends meet by selling Egg Wonder Powder, a baking preparation, and Eureka pants-hangers. He also had a grandfather, an old prospector who still hoped to strike it rich in the Colorado hills and spent much of his free time dosing himself with quinine, calomel and the secret remedies of one Gun Wa, a Chinese doctor. Most important of all, Gene had a grandmother, a pious, masterful woman whose hair had once been admired by General Lew Wallace...