Word: hermits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. William Jacob ("Will") Cuppy, 65, Indiana-born book critic (New York Herald Tribune) and humorist (How to Be a Hermit, 1929; How to Tell Your Friends from the Apes, 1931; How to Become Extinct, 1941); after long illness; in Manhattan...
...dispute. Anti-Masonic groups claimed that he was murdered and thrown into the Niagara River. They even produced a corpse which was buried with great ceremony-but which turned out to be someone else. Masons believed that he voluntarily left the country. Hie was later rumored to be a hermit in Canada, posing as an Indian chief in the Rockies, and living in Constantinople, having become a convert to Mohammedanism...
...women, men, and the animal kingdom, Social Relations is pertinent of the livelihood and enjoyment of every student. It is a valuable major, be one's future buried in a monastery, in business or the professions, or in the Fiji Islands. It even has something to offer the confirmed hermit, for it provides much enlightenment on conversation with the self...
...Milles' favorite figure is that of an old hermit philosopher, squatting like a gnome, as the sculptor had known him 50 years ago. "He had been a teacher at some university," says Milles. "But he preferred to live where people didn't know so much, and were not so conceited." Just before he died, the philosopher had poisoned his two dogs, so that they would always be with him. "So," says Milles, "I represent him sitting with his dogs, in the first moment when he arrives in the new world, and they are all united...
...record men had raked Tin Pan Alley from one end (Broadway) to the other (Hollywood) to get every foreseeable hit on to wax before James Caesar Petrillo put an end to it all on Dec. 31. But who could have guessed that a long-haired Hollywood "hermit," a bearded and usually barefoot character, had a hit song in his pocket? No one did-except Nat ("King") Cole. And last week, with Eden Ahbez' Nature Boy, King Cole and Capitol Records had the biggest musical scoop since...