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...Bowling Green," which no doubt attracts as many readers as all the other features of the Saturday Review (with the exception of the famed Personals) put together. Morley's column has to be read to be believed, and so long as it stays in it will continue to frighten away any serious and intelligent audience. In the second place he can get competent reviewers (not criticasters like the Benet boys and Bill Phelps and former editor H. S. Canby) to say what they think about books. There is nowhere among American publications today that you can go to find...
...nomination, thereby killing Kansas' hopes of a Landon-Vandenberg ticket. Two days later the Michigan Senator arrived in Cleveland, primed to add his bit to the dying "Stop Landon" movement. Oldtime Senator Moses, manager for Candidate Knox, spluttered angrily about Landon attempts to stampede "a deliberative assembly" and "frighten" delegates by extravagant claims of strength. By radio the New Hampshire Old Guardsman boomed: "This is a crisis and it must be treated as such. It must be dealt with as a matter of principle." Chimed Candidate Vandenberg: "I'm not interested in bandwagons. I'm interested...
...remarks about their water tower. In St. Louis the audience was impolite. In Denver up-to-date brothel-keepers showed their awareness of his approach by redecorating their cribs in pre-Raphaelite style, while the girls amazed their miner customers by screaming "Ut-terly utter!" Leadville, Colo, tried to frighten Oscar off with threatening letters, but nothing happened to him when he went there. When Griggsville, Kans. wired him an invitation to lecture on esthetics, he replied: "Begin by changing the name of your town." His tour netted Oscar ?1,200, but his expenses came to nearly that...
...alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse the State legislatures to protect this home growth by copyright. The book caught on, in spite of a frontispiece of Webster resembling a porcupine, which a hostile reviewer said would frighten even a patriotic child...
...moving about with appropriate mystery their evils to perform. There is a mysterious old tower which houses, one is cryptically informed, some of the weirdest specimens of taxidermical skill, a dilapidated old boat landing where sport the largest and most vicious crabs imaginable and numerous other terrible appurtenances to frighten the timid and delight the morbid...