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AUTOBIOGRAPHY WITH LETTERS-William Lyon Phelps-Oxford University Press...
Such is the phenomenal William Lyon Phelps, playboy of the humanities, Dale Carnegie of the critics, "the world's champion endorser." In the '20s William Lyon Phelps had passed his peak with undergraduates. But with U. S. readers he was at the height of his power, carried more weight than any critic before or since. To his praise were due the sensational sales of A. S. M. Hutchinson's saccharine If Winter Comes, of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, many another novel of equal flimsiness...
Last week William Lyon Phelps's Autobiography told the whole amazing story, from his happy, athletic childhood as a New Haven Baptist preacher's son to the latest Yale football team-a personal history whose like will probably not be lived again in the U. S. A giant, discursive volume, it reprints copiously from Billy Phelps's books and "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, contains random commentaries on everything from Browning to blowing smoke rings. Its main bulk is given over to his many letters from famed writers, to his reminiscences...
Last week 64-year-old Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King, who has often angered strong Imperialists by failing to come out wholeheartedly for war support for Britain, rose in the Ottawa House of Commons to read a speech on foreign policy. He droned along for 15 minutes...
Died. Annabel Hubbard Phelps, 74, wife of Yale's Professor-Emeritus William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps; of apoplexy; in New Haven. Full of fire, fun and hospitality, Mrs. Phelps was almost as famed in Yale's social life as her husband. An experienced housewife, she always kept ten chickens in the icebox...