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NEWSPAPER DAYS-H. L Mencken-Knopf...
When H. L. Mencken called Stripteaser Gypsy Rose Lee an ecdysiast* ten years ago, Gypsy (whose finale at the time consisted in dropping her garter belt in the tuba) called Mencken an intellectual snob, accused him bitterly of reading books. Now Gypsy has committed the final act of intellectual snobbery, written a book herself. It is a lurid, witty and highly competent detective story...
NEVERTHELESS I THANK YOU FOR THE LITTLE PIECE ABOUT HENRY MENCKEN AND MYSELF. AS I TOLD YOU BY TELEPHONE THE WHOLE THING SEEMED MORE OF A JOKE THAN A SERIOUS PLAN BUT I HAVE ALWAYS REVERED THE GREAT MENCKEN AS A MASTER-TEACHER AND WOULD NATURALLY FOLLOW HIS ORDERS SHOULD IT AMUSE HIM THUS TO MAKE AMUSEMENT FOR OTHERS...
Paunchy Henry Lewis Mencken as a ringmaster, balding Walter Duranty as a clown are two new attractions promised by Ringling Bros.' greatest show on earth next season. Ringling's insists it's on the level, that the writers put their names on the dotted line, but the best Mencken would say was "I'm meditating upon the offer," while Duranty said his own acceptance is "most improbable." Circusman John Ringling North started it over drinks in a Manhattan nightclub. His bid for Mencken was $12 a week, for Duranty...
With shrewd, persuasive John Cowles to Minneapolis went the Register & Tribune's high-powered, Mencken-shaped Managing Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters, who got his start as editor of an A.E.F. newspaper in Italy with Adolphe Menjou and Robert Maynard Hutchins (now president of the University of Chicago). Third of the potent Cowles general staff on the Star-Journal was John Thompson, onetime editor of Pearson's Magazine...