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...Hemingway followed this favorite sport that he was elected (November 1935) vice president of the Salt Water Anglers of America, leading big-game fishermen's association; so earnestly that he now sends odd catches to Philadelphia's Academy of Natural Sciences (where his good friend, Henry Weed Fowler, is chief ichthyologist). He is proud that a species of rosefish has been named Neomerinthe hemingwayi in his honor. His business trips are chiefly to Manhattan, where, shying away from tea-fighting literary circles, he sees only Scribners' Editor Max Perkins (whose decorous office framed the Hemingway-Max Eastman...
SALUTE TO YESTERDAY-Gene Fowler- Random House...
FRESH from his enviable success with his two great biographies "The Great Mouthpiece" and "Timber Line," Gene Fowler turns again to the novel with a brilliant piece of writing in "Salute to Yesterday." The book is the fruit of matured thought over the last six years. Its substance is a delving into the past of the Rocky Mountains and the rugged characters who were bound up in the pioneering days of the west...
Return of Gene Fowler, who incidentally has been a great power behind many recent motion picture successes, to what many critics call his forte could not have been marked by a more promising vehicle than "Salute to Yesterday." The success of the book because of sheer readability and almost universal appeal should be certain...
Among early enrollers was Mrs. Calista Fowler, 106-year-old resident of the Elgin Old People's Home who has been confined to a wheel chair for almost a quarter of a century. But Mrs. Fowler and 49 other charter students, who expected their school would start this week, were last week informed that opening had been delayed until Sept. 13. That was because of the Midwest's current infantile paralysis scare...