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Gusto is not a common characteristic of present-day writers. Their most notable common trait is resignation-a resignation that sometimes dresses itself up in a splendid refusal to surrender, a defiant rejection of the unconditional terms that life demands. Hemingway, Faulkner, Graham Greene, J. P. Marquand, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh-they all record, in their various manners, the hopeless valor, the quiet desperation of a rearguard action, a doomed though indomitable next-to-last stand...
...shirtsleeves. He talks everyday American with a New England twang, and runs his firm like a football team. He quit school early and came up the hard way. He has very little time for play. In his hurry, singlemindedness and success, he is a character out of J. P. Marquand...
Curtain Call (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). John P. Marquand's Swell Girl, with Wendell Corey and Victoria Ward...
Novelist John P. Marquand was the guest of honor at a luncheon last week in his old home town of Newburyport, Mass., attended by 200 of New England's top businessmen. But, as the nation's leading satirist later confessed, he was not quite sure why he had been honored. Novelist Marquand might have wondered still more if he had turned his satiric eye on the group which honored him, and which he had joined only shortly before. Its name: the Newcomen Society of England in North America...
...society is to study "material" (i.e., nonpolitical) and industrial his tory, with the lofty goal of establishing a "kind of mooring of stability for American business leaders in the troubled waters of America today." The chief moorings seem to be the dinners or luncheon, such as the one for Marquand, at which the honored guest, usually a businessman and always a Newcomener, tells the story of how his own organization became a success. (Marquand spoke on "Federalist Newburyport.") The speech is often printed in booklet form by the Princeton University Press and widely distributed by the society-usually...