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...friend told of Fitzgerald's generosity to a writer who was then unknown: "After Scribners showed a reluctance to publish Ernest Hemingway, [Scott] issued an ultimatum. All that I recall of it was that it ended, 'or else.' " Henry Wales, an American correspondent in Paris, told how Fitzgerald did battle one night in an elegant Montmartre nightclub against six Argentines armed with champagne bottles, with the damages in broken glassware alone amounting to $500. Two close friends, Millionaire Gerald Murphy and oldtime Cinemactress Lois Moran, spoke as the original models of Dick Diver and Rosemary...
That fall, too, a popular young novelist named Ernest Hemingway published "A Farewell To Arms,' 'and critic Lincoln Kirstein '30 wrote: "'Though we cannot now give him the title of "the" or even "a" great American novelist, if he progresses as logically away from uncertainty as up to the present, and grows in every technical power as he has so far done, he will undoubtedly be placed in the company of Melville, Stephen Crane...
...Climax! (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Ernest Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms, adapted by Gore Vidal...
Usher Moren's "II Vecchio" is such a fine parody of Hemingway that it is a shame Mr. Moren intended it as a serious story. A situation in which three barbers mourn the fate of a fourth whom age has forced back to the last chair in the shop is a true parody of all Hemingway's aging bullfighters and fishermen, especially when Mr. Moren has someone say, "He is an old man and cuts well and it is truly a terrible thing...
...should also be pointed out that Hemingway's Italians spoke in this peculiarly stylized way because he gave a fairly literal translation from the Italian. As Mr. Moren's story takes place not in Italy but truly in another country, this seems not only out of place but incorrect. At least the barbers in the Harvard Barber Shop don't speak English that way--and I, for one, can't follow their Italian, infrequent...