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Literary Caveman Horace McCoy has driven to an absurd extreme the hardboiled, feel-my-muscles style of James Cain and Dashiell Hammett, and, to add cultural tone, has dipped into the bowely bathos of the wasn't-Bix-wonderful, oh-blow-that-beautiful-horn school. The result is a gutter-minded, gutter-tongued shocker of alley-cat sex, sadism and unmourned murders-relieved only by odes to Satchmo's and Muggsy's horn blowing...
...belong to no school, hard-boiled or otherwise, and I believe these so-called schools exist mainly in the imagination of critics. . . . [Writing] is a genital process . . . intra-abdominal. ... I have read less than twenty pages of Mr. Dashiell Hammett in my whole life. ... I owe no debt ... to Mr. Ernest Hemingway . . . Matterhorn of literature...
After dreaming up and dummying up PM in 1939 ("an all-star cast of friends" like Heywood Broun, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman helped get out the first dry runs), Ingersoll began scouring the country for an angel. Once he almost found one in Life Saver Tycoon Edward Noble. They were set to sign the next day. That day Hitler marched into Poland and Noble decided not to march into any risky investments. Ingersoll finally found 16 backers who would "gamble with $100,000 chips," but money petered out, and he talked Field into carrying the whole debt...
...form of detective story originated by Poe and Conan Doyle still exists today in the U.S., side by side with a distinctively American genre originated by Dashiell Hammett (The Thin Man). Craig Rice is virtually the only woman of this school-with the possible exception of Gypsy Rose Lee, with whom Craig lived one summer in Connecticut while she was writing Mother Finds a Body and Having Wonderful Crime...
Fortnight ago, before an assemblage of publishers and authors in Manhattan's Rainbow Room, Robert de Graff, president of Pocket Books, presented Gertrudes to Ellery Queen (Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee) for New Adventures of Ellery Queen, to Dashiell Hammett for The Thin Man, to Thorne Smith posthumously (the prize was accepted by his two daughters) for Topper, to Max Brand posthumously for Singing Guns (a western), to Damon Runyon for Best of Damon Runyon and Damon Runyon's Favorites, and to Shirley Cunningham for The Pocket Entertainer (popular with troops...