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...returns to his home town for a week or so to help the old folks get the house repaired. Novelist Brooks uses this slender and unpromising pretext to merge past and present in a way that would make that old master of the flashback, John Marquand, nod with approval. Tom's ancestors had helped to found the town of East Bank, had fought against the British to hold it. Now, shorn of both money and influence, the family has one great fear: change. They don't like to see people with foreign names getting rich and powerful. They...
...story is handled with fine ease, and the characters talk with a naturalness that is not at all common in current fiction. What A Pride of Lions sadly lacks is suspense, exactly what Marquand uses to give urgency to situations no more exciting than the one Brooks starts with. Whether or not the elder Osborne succeeds in keeping a big oil company from industrializing sleepy old East Bank never gets to be of any real interest. And Tom's love affair with a girl who at first doesn't understand East Bankers is pallid to the point...
Emily Flint, Managing Editor of the Alantic Monthly, will discuss opportunities in magazine writing and publishing. John P. Marquand, Jr. '46, author of the "Second Happiest Day," will talk about the novelist, alvin davis,m a reporter for the New Your Post and currently a Nieman Fellow, will speak on the life of a newspaper reporter...
...affairs, however, especially since its present home was built. Efforts to make the magazine more solvent included the renting of shops on its Plympton Street side. One of the most famous of these was a basement restaurant called "John's Petit Lunch." Even as early as 1916, John P. Marquand wrote in an article for the Transcript: "The Lampoon has come into almost more than its own. That is, it is still paying for its building on the installment plan...
Nominees for the five positions on the Board of Overseers are George Gund '09 of Cleveland, Ohio, President of the Cleveland Trust Co.; John P. Marquand '14, Newbury, Mass., noted author; Cloyd LaPorte '16, New York City, member of the law firm of Root, Ballantine, Harlan, Bushby, and Palmer; and Henry B. Cabot '17, Trustee...