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Carefree young U. S. citizens whose understanding of prohibition ends with the hard grins on the face of men that bring heavy bundles to their parents, last week turned a name over in their minds trying to think where they had heard it before. "F. Scott McBride?" they said. "Where before have I heard of F. Scott McBride...
...them realized that they had never before heard of F. Scott McBride. The name they were half-remembering was F. Scott Fitzgerald. They had read novels by F. Scott Fitzgerald, works in which cocktails make the characters say unexpected things and in which highballs, gin fizzes, champagne inspire exciting conduct...
Older U. S. citizens, people who read their newspapers more carefully, repeated the name top. "Francis Scott McBride? Francis Scott McBride?" they said. "Do you suppose that he is a descendant of Francis Scott Key, who wrote 'The Star-Spangled Banner...
...matter of fact, Francis Scott McBride is no more related to Francis Scott Key than he is to Francis Scott Fitzgerald. Strange things have happened in the home of the brave and the land of the free, but for the general superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League of America to be related to the author of This Side of Paradise is a little too bizarre to be true. The author of Flappers and Philosophers and The Great Gatsby is indeed a connection of the author of "The Star-Spangled Banner." But not so the Anti-Saloon League Superintendent...
ORDEAL BY GLORY?James Marshall?McBride ($2). Had small-town John Hoyer married sex-appealing Agnes Paine instead of sweet, sympathetic Mary Borchard, he might never have become Governor. At his peak, however, when the architecture of his career has been executed to a nicety, he crumbles at a stroke of apoplexy...