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...years ago the Transcript was given a transfusion of new capital, reorganization, modern format, a price boost from 3? to 5?. But the Transcript, immutably loyal to a vanished Boston, fitted Novelist Marquand's description of Wickford Point: "The whole place was like a clock which was running down, an amazing sort of clock, now devoid of weights or springs or hands, yet ticking on through some ancient impetus on its own momentum...
...just stolen second, he then issued a challenge to Babe Ruth, who hits a long ball at golf, too: "I have been hankering to take a shot at the Babe ever since I started playing golf. Anywhere, any time, and for any charity." - Having read Novelist John P. Marquand's best-selling H. M. Pulham, Esquire, which pokes chuckle-humored satire at a Beacon Hill Boston now all but dead, William Cardinal O'Connell, Archbishop of Boston, complained: "Of course my experience is limited, but I sincerely hope that Bostonians, especially the women, have not degenerated into...
...year. The chances are that the present crop of Seniors will look back in 1966 upon careers remarkably like that of H. M. Pulham '15. But at the same time it is probably that they will never tell that story as convincingly or as interestingly as does John P. Marquand in his latest book...
...England long since gone to seed, John Phillips Marquand writes with affectionate malice. The Late George Apley (1937) was a full-length portrait of a Boston Brahmin who was left like Old North Church amid a new environment. Wickford Point (1939) examined the Brill family who made up for their lack of money, brains or usefulness with proud descent from a minor contemporary of Emerson and H. D. Thoreau. Last week, in H. M. Pulham, Esquire, Marquand wryly celebrated his Harvard class of 1915 and its type of New England gentleman...
...Marquand's writing puts the ideas of T. S. Eliot's Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock into the language of a Saturday Evening Post serial. Years of entertaining readers of The Ladies' Home Journal, McCall's, etc., brought Marquand enough money so that he could try his hand at more serious fiction. But thanks to that rigorous training, his serious books are 1) far easier reading than literature needs to be, 2) almost as profitable as the serialized adventures of his Japanese sleuth, Mr. Moto...