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...information. Nietzsche, however, is a part of our own cultural inheritance--he has had followers among the intelligentsia of France, England, and the United States. Till now there has been no adequate English biography of this philosopher-prophet, only a few commentaries by such authors as H. L. Mencken, whose book is more Mencken business than Nietzschean, and W. H. Wright, alias S. S. Van Dine, creator of Philo Vance...
...sardonic, down-to-earth way of looking at things. Consequently he became the rarest type of reformer, coupling a taxi driver's view of human nature with his idealism. Muñoz Marin studied at Georgetown University, wrote for the Baltimore Sun, The Nation and Henry Louis Mencken's old Smart Set magazine, sold articles on Carl Sandburg and Edgar Lee Masters to South American papers. He married Muna Lee, distinguished poetess, speaker at Pan-American conferences, contributor to The New Yorker, onetime book reviewer for the New York Times...
Wilbur Joseph Cash was born in South Carolina in 1901, went to Southern schools and colleges, became a newspaperman, contributed to Mencken's old American Mercury, is now associate editor of the Charlotte, N. C. News. He is a Democrat, a Baptist, an inheritor of the South's tradition. The Mind of the South, his first published book, is in effect a psychoanalysis of his own native land...
HAPPY DAYS (1880-1892) - H. L Mencken-Knopf...
...popularizing the phrase, "fifth column," Martin Dies has earned himself an unenviable paragraph in H. L. Mencken, and a good many inches in the newspapers. His plea yesterday for an appropriation to continue his carte blanche investigations will irk neither the rouges nor the noirs so much as it will upset the sincere democrats in this country. If there is any one man today who symptomizes the tendency in a crisis period towards the rise of a vigilante spirit of hysteria, it is the Honorable Gentleman from Texas...