Word: mansfield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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NIGHT IN BOMBAY-Louis Bromfield -Harper ($2.50). Louis Bromfield once looked like a good novelist (The Green Bay Tree, The Strange Case of Miss Annie Spragg); he now seems to be a pretty good guy. To his farm at Mansfield, Ohio, lanky Louis Bromfield returned this spring from a bout of $3,000-a-week screenwriting in Hollywood, settled down to scientific agriculture. Night in Bombay is a full-blown example of meretricious fiction, conditioned almost to the point of innocence by long practice in commercial writing, displaying at every critical point the artistic acumen of a flashy sophomore. Novelist...
...West Hotel where Jim Hill had eaten, slept and drunk while building his northwest railroad empire; where Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons once demonstrated his solar plexus punch with a bellboy for a sparring partner; where popeyed crowds had gathered, in the reaches of the spreading, pretentious lobby, to watch Booth, Mansfield, Bernhardt, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson and many another pass...
...lady known as Elizabeth is now an old lady of 74. Born Mary Annette Beauchamp (pronounced Beecham), a cousin of the late Katherine Mansfield (Kathleen Beauchamp), she was married first to a German nobleman, Count von Arnim, and in 1916 to the second Earl Russell, elder brother of Philosopher Bertrand Russell. After their separation a few years later, she lived and worked in Switzerland, England and France. Last summer she left her villa in the south of France, turned up at the Dublin Inn, Dublin, N. H. In the autumn, driving her own small car, she proceeded to the Gold...
...Green Mountains run the White Mountains a close second. At the foot of Mt. Mansfield, snuggling in a snow pocket only 200 miles from Boston and 333 from Manhattan, Stowe, Vt. always has snow (from December to May). Its 60 miles of varied trails (including daredevil Nose Dive) are enough for two weeks' skiing without duplication. Other famed Eastern trails for experts: Mt. Greylock's Thunderbolt, steepest of the 16 downhill trails in the Berkshires; Suicide Six, near Woodstock, Vt., where schussnuts whizz down its 1,800 feet in less than 60 seconds; Tuckerman's Ravine...
...SCRAPBOOK OF KATHERINE MANSFIELD-Edited by J. Middleton Murry-Knopf ($2.50). Of negligible appeal to readers-in-general, these last scraps from Katherine Mansfield's notebooks are of automatic importance to her cult of admirers, of genuine literary interest as well. A writer's scraps often reveal him better than his letters or his journals; and Mansfield is here revealed in her grievous living, in her streaks of curious repellence, and in her unique, luminous perceptions. Since her perceptions often had the instantaneousness of magnesium-powder flashes, some of her brief entries contain some of her best work...