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...FOWLER North Manchester, Ind. Sir: After observing the behaviour of Senator McCarthy in the hearings now being shown on TV, I believe that he is indeed a menace to our democratic form of government...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, may 24, 1954 | 5/24/1954 | See Source »

Minutes of the Last Meeting, by Gene Fowler. More stories about those three Hollywood musketeers, John Barrymore, W. C. Fields and Author Fowler, disguised as a biography of their colleague and poetic oracle, Sadakichi Hartmann (TIME, April...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: RECENT & READABLE, may 3, 1954 | 5/3/1954 | See Source »

...hearings to nothing else, they will give Mr. Fowler's remains a measure of morbid exercise, gyrating in the grave with the pomp that the gentle linguist always deplored...

Author: By Robert J. Schoenberg, | Title: Pomp and Circumstance | 4/30/1954 | See Source »

...especially interested in your April 5 references to Sadakichi Hartmann in Gene Fowler's book [Minutes of the Last Meeting]. As I knew him 20-odd years ago, Hartmann was an off-beat character who ... resembled an aged water sprite. And much of the time he imitated an old satyr aprowl. At times he could be utterly beguiling. At others, a deadbeat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1954 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Painter John Decker may score in Fowler's book for his good cooking, but on the day I visited his studio he had an open can of some foodstuff . . . the blue and white label read "Fix FOR HUMAN USE." It was issued by the WPA. The dark walls of Decker's depressing menage were covered with "brown-sauce" paintings-one of which was Queen Victoria with a W. C. Fields head [see cut]. Another, after Da Vinci, had Fanny Brice's face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 26, 1954 | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

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