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...hand. Moustached, spaniel-eyed Franklin Pierce Adams, 64, got his start in 1903, grinding out columns for $25 a week on the old Chicago Journal. When he manned the "Conning Tower" in the old New York World, such wits and literary wights as Dorothy Parker and John O'Hara were among his unpaid contributors...
...bang and sparkle of this literary Fourth of July was as spent as a dead rocket. To an inquiring Briton, an American would have to reply: the outstanding U.S. novelists are John Steinbeck (The Grapes of Wrath), Ernest Hemingway (For Whom the Bell Tolls), and John O'Hara (Appointment in Samarra). Protest had turned into corrosive petulance or special pleading for the Left. Frustration had replaced anger. No U.S. writer saw U.S. life whole; and even the scrap he saw, he usually saw over the rim of a cocktail glass. The belief grew that U.S. novelists could not write...
...when Cio-Cio-San committed hara-kiri there were many tear-filled eyes. The Met's general manager Edward Johnson, who in his tenor days sang Pinkerton some 50 times, is inclined to absolve him. Said he: "He's no villain, really. He's a romantic-a biological romantic...
Anita ("The Face") Colby, ex-Cover Girl No. 1, was named "the most beautiful woman in America." Picker: publicity-wise Harry Conover, Manhattan model-peddler. Also named: 1) Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara, "the perfect-feature girl;" 2) Ingrid Bergman (who acts for David Selznick, who employs Miss Colby as adviser), "the prettiest woman on the screen...
Thus, in the 18th year of the Era of Enlightened Peace, an ideological hara-kiri was committed on the anachronistic body of Shintoism. For Japan and all the Far East the consequences of Emperor Hirohito's proclamation might well be profound...