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...freshman and sophomore at the College Conant roomed at 7 Linden Street. "Mrs Mooney's Palace of Pleasure" as it was called. His fellow pleasure-seeker John P. Marquand '15 glories in relating one of the main athletic diversions at 7 Linden, Called "the two beer dash," it consisted of rushing by subway into Boston, drinking two beers, and returning to Cambridge in the shortest possible time Conant's prowess in this field have not been recorded for posterity, but he has always been recorded for posterity, but he has always been known as a capable athlete...
...more pleasant assignments consisted of spending several days in Nassau with John P. Marquand for a cover story (TIME, March 7, 1949). Marquand later told fellow Book-of-the-Month Club judges: "I never got such an awful going over" as he received at the hands of Gissen and Researcher Ruth Mehrtens. A later postscript came just a few weeks ago, when Gissen met Marquand, who said: "All the time you were using me I was using you." Marquand, who had drawn on the TIME team for characters in his new book, Melville Goodwin, USA, asked Gissen to convey...
...Jeff Selleck has not sprung from the soil of the creative imagination; he has been raised from the dust of the literary graveyard. He is a latter-day George Babbitt a westernized George Apley, a bewildered Willy Loman, stained with the pathos oJ success. Whenever Sinclair Lewis, John Marquand or Arthur Miller fail him, Author Jonas falls back on George Gallup. Jeff Selleck's life is the stuff life insurance actuary tables are made...
Point of No Return. J. P. Marquand's novel of life among the up & coming translated into a slick stage success (see above...
More even than it suffers from being dieted to fit the stage, Point of No Return is hurt by a want of the book's wry irony, a failure to pose the dilemma that agitates Marquand himself quite as much as any other U.S. male. The play does not sufficiently cut two ways because Charles never seems sufficiently pulled two ways, never really seems involved in a fight against a job, only in a fierce struggle for one. And -a touch not in the book-if Charles's turndown of a fancy country-club bid is meant...