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...sedate and unromantic as a registered ccw-the invariable fate, in such fiction, of those unfortunate enough to have been born in wedlock. Maria has become a popular actress; Niall, a composer of popular song hits; Celia, a self-sacrificing homebody. But all three have reached John Marquand's "point of no return" with the conviction that they have frittered away their talents through vanity and laziness...
...Fisherman, Lloyd Douglas Mary, Sholem Asch The Egyptian, Mika Waltari A Rage to Live, John O'Hara Point of No Return, John Marquand...
Novelist John P. Marquand lost a legal fight to buy out the interests of six cousins in a 46-acre ancestral estate (scene of his Wickford Point) in Newburyport, Mass. Marquand, who had argued that he could not live in peace with relatives setting up summer homes all over the place, was left with two houses and only 15 acres...
...celebrate its 25th birthday last week, the Saturday Review of Literature (circ. 92,000) rounded up a literary team of heavy hitters led by Robert Sherwood, John P. Marquand, Lewis Gannett, Christopher Morley, Maxwell Anderson. They obligingly tried to knock the cover off the ball, but it was SRL that slugged out the homer, circulation-wise. Even at the new price of 20?, up a nickel, it sold out a record press run of 150,000 copies in three days. Then it ran off another 10,000 copies, and contracted with a publisher to bring out the star-studded issue...
...John P. Marquand, now leading the bestseller list himself, took a hard look at one of 1920's bestsellers and shrugged his shoulders: "What made [F. Scott Fitzgerald's] This Side of Paradise an immediate [hit] was no doubt its ... expose of the immoralities of the younger generation . . . Unfortunately, things have progressed so far that [today] one wishes that one's own children behaved as sensibly and nicely . . ." But Paradise was still "an exceptionally brilliant piece of work...