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...other claims to fame besides being a minor character in Joyce's Dublin epic. Renowned as "the wildest wit in Ireland." a doctor, a Senator, an air pilot. Oliver St. John Gogarty is also no mean versifier, occasionally no mean poet. His version of the old tale of Leda (originally printed in the Atlantic Monthly) is very Irish. One stanza: Of the tales that daughters...
RETROSPECT-Aldous Huxley-Double-day, Doran ($2.50). Fourteen hundred pages of Author Huxley's reprinted prose & verse, including Brave New World, Crome Yellow, Leda...
...Phinney, H. Weld, T. W. Thorndike, Jr., E. A. Jonson, G. W. Westalke, R. M. Campbell, Roger Potter, Nancy White, Persis White, Prescott Winkley, E. S. Baker, Eleanor Friedman, Charles B. Feibleman, Cyrus Wood, R. M. Low, Barbara Klingenhargen, James P. Reiher, Lillian Townesed, G. C. Kibbs, Leda Wilson, John P. Faville, E. H. Pringle, Jr., Brad Datson, W. L. Dana, J. DeQ. Briggs, Mary Morse, H. Babcock Brown, Eleanor Howe, Stanley D. Peirce, Jane Ewell, Edward Rowe, Marguerite Roberts, James Fella Hill, Alice Roberts, Adele Joan Lambrose, Charles A. Dale, Spencer D. Ortherger, Catherine Fitzgerald, Joseph F. Fitzgerald, Anastasia...
...should turn up but Garry Clune, Leda's girlhood love. Clune has made a fortune, is married, but far from settled down. The memory of Leda has tormented him for years. He invites her and Blount out to his Virginia estate, and Leda, against her better judgment, but for the sake of Blount's possible advantage, accepts. Advantages soon follow. De Long, a friend of dune's, takes an interest in Blount's glass works, an interest in Blount's wife. He introduces her to Judith Webster. Washington's star socialite, whose husband...
...things are not so simple for the others. Clune's wife, Kathy, with whom Leda makes great friends, is half crazy with unsatisfied love of him; but he wants only Leda. Failing to get her he sets off to the War with suicidal intent. To hold him back, for Kathy as well as for herself, Leda gives herself to him, but he goes to War just the same. When she bears a child Blount, who is impotent, thinks it is his. Leda does not undeceive him. He has grown more & more powerful, more & more self-assured during Wartime politics...