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...Fowler was always pleasantly known to his boss as "that young man from Denver." He remained young, or at least he retained an impishly boyish notion of what constitutes a great moment in history. He could remember Queen Marie of Rumania's being presented with an honorary headdress by the Dakota Indians and telling her lady in waiting to "get rid of that damned thing." He remembered lean Eamon De Valera, clad in long underwear, donning huge boxing gloves and sparring with his bull-necked secretary in a sitting room of the old Waldorf. It sometimes seems that Fowler...
SKYLINE (314 pp.)-Gene Fowler-Viking...
...kind of newspaper assignment Gene Fowler relished in the 1920s was to be told by his managing editor to find a deserving old gentleman for a monkey-gland rejuvenation operation. When a scholarly greybeard named Mr. Bacon came into the New York American's offices primed with schemes of calendar reform and admitted, conversationally, to two carnal thoughts a year "at the most," Fowler knew he had his man. He went to a pet shop and procured "a nasty-tempered fugitive from an organ-grinder's beat," though in his columns Fowler called the monkey "Ponce de Leon...
Scored for Fields. The late Gene (A Solo in Tom-Toms) Fowler, who died last year at 70, has here bottled some 96-proof nostalgia. A series of discontinuous an ecdotes, Skyline almost asks to be read aloud in the elliptical nasalities...
Fields, a great crony of the author's. Mostly, Fowler reminisces about New York newspapering circa 1918-29, during which time he was managing editor of Hearst's Daily Mirror and American, and drops footnotes to big names and no-names...