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Thus, in just about the shortest story he ever wrote, Ernest Hemingway 40 years ago described King Constantine and Queen Sophia as they were clinging to the unstable throne of Greece. Last week Constantine's son, King Paul, was also in his gardened palace at Tatoi, outside Athens, and the whiskey was still good. But unlike his father, Paul did not want to go to America. He wanted to go to Britain, and his Premier would not let him, thereby precipitating a first-class political crisis...
...work of belles-lettres, in which Algren appears in the ambiguous role of the anti-intellectual intellectual. The spectacle of a literary man proving that he is hairier than a Rotarian is sadly familiar in the history of American letters, most notably in the person of Ernest Hemingway, who was prone to discuss literature as if it were a branch of fisticuffs. Algren goes the old master one worse by writing about books and boxing as if both were rackets...
...confused, however, with Hemingway's fictional Lady Brett Ashley or the real-life Sylvia Ashley...
...Hemingway took him to the boxing matches; Duchamp beat him at chess. Brancusi entertained him by playing the violin, Cocteau by a drum recital, Gertrude Stein by letting Alice B. Toklas cook him lunch. And this was fit tribute to the wiry young expatriate American who not only made artful photographs of his Paris friends but also created a series of "objects"-tacks fastened to a flatiron, a picture of the human eye to a metronome - that shook the salons of the '20s with cries of ecstasy and reverence. Yet Man Ray wanted fame as a painter...
...clear beyond reasonable doubt. And if we can obtain the conviction, we must congratulate the father on his splendid brood. For Gertrude Stein did not spawn just one "natural" child but an unnaturally gifted litter of literary figures. Her American progeny include, by the way, such robust bastards as Hemingway and Sherwood Anderson...