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Able and avid to censor books and plays within its city limits, Boston tries also to censor magazines. In 1926 it impeded sales of the American Mercury containing "Hatrack." Last spring it pounced on Scribner's for the serial instalments of Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms." Last week magazine readers watched to see what Boston would do about the January number of Plain Talk, which contained a sizzling article about Boston itself...
...still young enough to regard a prostitute as an adventure. . . . The third group was the group of serious students who were not social about it . . . went in for higher mathematics, and for chess, and for physics." Mr. Lipshutz made this analysis because he is a reader of Henry Louis ("Hatrack") Mencken's American Mercury and had read therein of two $500 prizes to be awarded for the best analysis of four years at college. The other prizewinner was Olive Brossow, this year's product of Northland College, Northland...
Conflict. Even at this late date the War's casualties continue very real in health clinics and on the stage. This is the story of the hero who won his halo largely through lack of imagination, only to find that it would not fit on the hatrack back home. It is an exceedingly interesting study of the blind arrogance of one of the War's own children in conflict with the equally blind forgetfulness of the world to which he returned. It just misses being a fine play. Its chances of success are greatly enhanced by the presence...
...Author of Up From Methodism, The Gangs of AVu> York and the famed article Hatrack about a prostitute ("Fanny Fewclothes") and two churchyards...
...Lewis and others have long since so improved upon the Sinclair journalese that what once seemed striking is now stale as War news. But some policemen in Boston found passages in the book which made them feel it should be suppressed. Recalling H. L. Mencken's coup with "Hatrack" in the American Mercury under similar circumstances, Mr. Sinclair hurried off to Boston, imitated the Mencken tactics of selling his contraband publicly and orating on Boston Common,† and of recent weeks the book has had a sale over which even a Communist might not be able to conceal...