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...Washington's American Newspaper Women's Club, the Democrats' most eligible spinster, Mary Margaret Truman, 32, got tea and congratulations from her old capital cronies over the serialized publication of her memoirs, Souvenir. A newshen asked whether Margaret and her memoir-penning father had exchanged views on each other's works. Said Margaret: "He does his writing. I do mine." Meanwhile, two Hollywood studios were wooing Margaret with propositions to play herself in film versions of her short young life and high old times...
...mind and body; as it were, asking myself, 'Is it this you want? Is it this?' "). Surprised by Joy is an autobiographical mirror held up to a questing soul, and across it flash revealing images of a time, a place, and a class. For Lewis' memoir reflects a public-school England-more courageous than moral, more devoted to good form than to the good-that shaped many men who still make headlines. This England, demi-paradise and demi-hell, is the inevitable setting of Lewis' own personal search...
...Bengal and CoromandeU), he has a fair chance of carrying out his plan -particularly since he works on an electric typewriter, turning out first drafts at a clip of 11,000 words a day. But U.S.-naturalized Novelist Masters has paused in his fiction labors to write a memoir of his youth. Not surprisingly, it turns out to be about his service in India as an infantry officer in a Gurkha regiment...
Papa Married a Mormon, by John D. Fitzgerald. A pleasant, mock-bucolic Western memoir in the vein of an Agnes de Mille ballet scored for six-guns (TIME...
...this uproarious memoir Cordelia Drexel Biddle (now Mrs. T. Markoe Robertson) serves up a Philadelphia pepper pot of stories about the Main Line's celebrated Biddies. Most of the book is about her father. Colonel Anthony J. Drexel Biddle, a punch-and-judo-throwing millionaire who led fully as strenuous a life as his good friend Teddy Roosevelt. As an amateur boxer, the bald, spike-mustached aristocrat fought under the name of "Tim O'Biddle." The great Ruby Bob Fitzsimmons called him one of the best amateur fighters he ever saw. In 1908 he went four roughhouse rounds...