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...Marquand Wins Award...
...confuse anthropologists with philanthropists, Earnest A. Hooton, professor of Anthropology, went on to tell some 300 people gathered in the Herald-Traveler Auditorium for the opening of the Boston Book Fair, that the more he studied men, the more he liked his apes. Theodore Roosevelt '09, John P. Marquand '14 and Oliver La Farge '24 also appeared on the program and amused the audience with an hour of reminiscences...
This year's annual banquet is a landmark in the history of Harvard's comic magazine. Nathaniel G. Benchley '38, President, announced last night that among the speakers and former Lampooners present would be famous cartoonist Gluyas Williams '10. Likewise present will be John P. Marquand '14, author of the recent best seller "The Late George Apley...
Unfortunately all the George Apleys and their wives seem to think they are being made game of. Certainly neither the nice Mr. Santayana nor even Mr. Marquand meant to do that. They were merely showing them off, as one shows a most prized heirloom. George Apley, with his five-button coat, is to America as the Breton peasant woman with her super-headdress is to France; perhaps some day he too will adorn the pages of the National Geographic on the dentist's waiting-room table...
...were thus able to maintain a comparative detachment, were a little saddened by, no mater how much they admired, the unbending Mr. Apley. But as usual the most thorough condemnation came from the condemned. The saddest sentence of all came from the Boston Evening Transcript, in discussing Mr. Marquand upon the occasion of his engagement: "'George Apley' is Mr. Marquand's best book. Mr. Edgett of the Transcript did not find it amusing, but in general it had a good press and is still among the best sellers...