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...MILL-John Masefield-Macmillan...
...Mill describes the two years Masefield spent in Yonkers, N.Y., in the late '90s, working for the Alexander Smith Carpet Mills. He worked first at straightening the metal tubes which held the yarns. Later, as "mistake finder," he learned the 30 processes which went into carpetmaking, and all the 1,500 colors, by tint and number. Masefield gives a real sense of the beautifully counterpointed complexities of mill work: "No man can be unmoved by the great concerted energy of many men and women." More than the work, he liked the food, the money and the leisure it gave...
...John Masefield went back to Yonkers, gave a lecture at the high school (the company is very proud of him), and rejoined old friends of the mill days at the neat boardinghouse he used to live in at 8 Maple Street. William R. Booth had found him working in a Sixth Avenue saloon, and got him the mill job in the first place. Billy Booth has every word his friend has ever written, post cards and letters as well. Like "Macey," he always was a thoughtful, reading man. He still is, but he never left the mill. He is mechanical...
Stokes, a 60-year-old house which in its time has published Frances Hodgson Burnett, John Masefield, Gertrude Atherton, Robert 0. Peary, General Pershing, Louis Bromfield, will publish under its own imprint for a while. It brings with it such current authors as Ellery Queen, John Erskine, Eugene Lyons and a strong juvenile list...
...hippogriffs. Osbert's impish autobiographical notes in Who's Who are said to freeze the other Sitwells into stoney stares of amusement. All three delight in caressing authors and critics they do not like with their individual or corporate paws. Edith once called a poem of John Masefield's "dead mutton" and Poet Cecil Day Lewis "an electric drill with the electricity left out." She and Osbert presented prizes to "the authors most representative of the tedious literature of the age." Novelist Henry Williamson got a stuffed fish; Biographer Harold Nicolson two stuffed kittens; the literary editor...