Word: marquands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Maxwell Evarts Perkins, 62, editor of Publishers Charles Scribner's Sons, discoverer and literary nurse of such notables as Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Erskine Caldwell, Ring Lardner, John P. Marquand; of pneumonia; in Stamford, Conn. In You Can't Go Home Again, the late Thomas Wolfe lovingly caricatured Good Friend Perkins as "Foxhall Edwards"; drew a Miltonic epitaph: "Oh guileful Fox, how innocent in guilefulness and in innocence how full of guile! How straight in cunning, and how cunning-straight, in all directions how strange-devious, in all strange-deviousness how direct! Too straight for crookedness...
...nation's bylines, Lorimer made it the biggest nickel's worth on the market. Contributors ranged from Jack London, Rex Beach, Irvin Cobb and Ring Lardner to such post-World War I stars as F. Scott Fitzgerald, Clarence Budington Kelland, Katharine Brush and J. P. Marquand. What they gave the Post was not always their best, but it was their slickest, and it was good enough to push circulation beyond...
...Late George Apley. Ronald Colman and other skilled make-believe Bostonians in a pleasant adaptation of J. P. Marquand's Back Bay satire (TIME, March...
...Late George Apley. Ronald Colman and other skilled make-believe Bostonians in a pleasant adaptation of J. P. Marquand's satire (TIME, March...
...this is not what Marquand intended. Far from being any kind of satire, the film might convince those who have never been exposed to the local setting that Boston might do with a corps of psycho analysts. Would that it would that simple. Like the city he lived in, the original George Apley was a creature of deep conflicts and inner restlessness. Ronald Colman does no better than an imitation of any neighborhood's damn fool...