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Please thank you for the beautifully caustic review [Oct. 26] of Dorothy Carnegie's How to Help Your Husband Get Ahead . . . I have the happy fortune to be married to a gentleman and a scholar, a Samuel Taylor Coleridge sort of man, and I hope that he will stay "useless and lovable . . ." Isn't it odd that Mr. Coleridge is still read and admired after over a hundred years? I wonder who's going to remember the backslapping Mr. and Mrs. Dale Carnegie...
While filling in for Columnist Bennett Cerf in the Saturday Review, Novelist Laura (Gentleman's Agreement) Hobson discovered that she "adored having a column." Writer Hobson confessed her new passion to the editor of Hearst's Good Housekeeping, who signed her to do nine columns a year. When Columnist Inez Robb of Hearst's International News Service left, by mutual consent, to join Scripps-Howard and United Feature syndicate a fortnight ago, I.N.S. knew just where to turn. Beginning next week, Laura Hobson will do five columns a week for I.N.S. and its clients, titled "Assignment America...
...reporter on the New York Post, later switched back to advertising. She joined TIME Inc.'s promotion department as a writer in 1934, left in 1940 and began devoting full time to writing fiction. Of her four novels and many short stories, the most successful has been Gentleman's Agreement, which sold more than 1,600,000 copies. As a columnist, Novelist Hobson is still not sure what she will write. But she is sure that she is "not going to be Mrs. Political Pundit...
Entombed deep in the recesses of Firestone Library, Princeton has its own literary versions of Yale's Dink Stover and Harvard's Iron Duke, Books like A Princetonian and Adventures of a Freshman, forewarned the inexperienced, nineteenth century gentleman of perils and pleasures on the Nassau campus. 'The Victorian veneer of old-time literature has not entirely disappeared. A modern view of the Princeton campus reveals that Gothic and greeness live...
...Archie Bleyer, said Godfrey, all choked up: "I love that man. He's a gentleman." But Archie, too, had lost his humility. Bandleader Bleyer had spent part of a recent vacation by going out to Chicago for his own record company and cutting some songs with the star of a rival network-ABC's Don (Breakfast Club) McNeill. "It's like being married to a woman for 20 years," said Godfrey mournfully, "and then coming home and finding a cigar butt in the ashtray...