Word: home
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Deerfield, Wis., within a week after his marriage, Editor Harland Everson's Independent ran an ad over his name: "For Sale ... 42 corncob pipes, 1 Home Brew outfit complete . . . 1 address book...
Once more their patience has been rewarded-but not so amusingly this time. Christopher Morley's new novel, The Man Who Made Friends With Himself, is a long epigram-studded footnote on the life of Richard Tolman, a literary agent who commutes and ruminates between his Long Island home and his Manhattan office. His story is a memoir found after his death...
Richard Tolman felt a certain uneasiness at finding himself living outside the centuries of his favorite authors, but it was not for lack of physical comforts. Mealie, his Negro housekeeper, saw to his well-being at home, listened patiently to his erudite rumblings, and entertained her employer in dialect that Amos 'n' Andy would consider extravagant. In his New York office, shapely Tally, possessor of a delightful A-to-B cultural range, was in charge. Richard's heart, however, belonged to Zoe Else, a New York psychiatrist whose attractions were heightened by a familiarity with Bartlett...
That Man. Feeling out of sorts, Richard decided to begin an indefinite stay at home. Among other things he wanted to consider the case of an unidentified man who had left a sealed manuscript at his office with instructions that it was not to be opened without permission. During the weeks at home, Zoe fortified him with such cryptic postcard messages as "Quit biting your nails" and "I suggest you do more knitting." But Richard was up to more important things: he had finally made contact with That Man, his other self. That Man (also referred to as Mr. Doppelganger...
...Hearth & Home. In Manhattan, Mrs. Betty Jo Hill, suing for alimony, told the court that her husband "ignored me completely and devoted himself exclusively to watching the television programs." In Denver, police learned that Private Sam Fowler, hospitalized with a bullet wound in his hip, had criticized his wife's cooking; she took five shots at him with a .38 revolver. In Vancouver, B.C., Mrs. Constance McLeod got a divorce after testifying that her husband bit a piece out of their marriage certificate and threatened to make her eat the rest...