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...editorial page, "Fannie Hurst Recalls:", "Irvin S. Cobb Recalls:", "Mary Roberts Rinehart Recalls:"- friends of Bob Davis pinch-hitting in his column. The list grew so long-Ben Ames Williams, Rex Ellingwood Beach, Newton Booth Tarkington, Ring W. Lardner, Sam Heilman, Sophie Kerr, Dorothy Canfield, Henry Louis Mencken, Montague Marsden Glass, George Ade, etc. etc.-that the Sun's Bob Davis column promised to become a complete parade of U. S. literati...
...first joint eruption of Henry Louis Mencken and George Jean Nathan...
From unpoetic, scantly praising Critic Henry Louis Mencken, Poet Hoffenstein's first book, Poems in Praise of Practically Nothing, won the epithet "incomparable." The book was a refreshingly satirical draught from the Plutonian spring. Poet Hoffenstein's second book, Year In, You're Out, contains much the same kind of thing in much the same manner, but here is less satire, more lyric yearning. Again it is Poet Hoffenstein's sourer vein that suits him best...
...Author. Henry Louis Mencken, stocky, with broad, ingenuous face, fond of beer, is 50, a bachelor. A native of Baltimore, he still lives there, edits The American Mercury when he comes (at least once a month) to Manhattan. He worked as reporter on various Baltimore newspapers, became editor of The Smart Set (1914-23) with Critic George Jean Nathan; of The American Mercury (1924). Said Nathan of Mencken: "I respect him, and am his friend, because he is one of the very few Americans I know who is entirely free of cheapness, toadyism and hypocrisy. . . . He is the best fighter...
Psychoscientist Oliver Lodge's faith is at the opposite pole from Skeptic Mencken's agnosticism (see col. i), goes farther than most Christians' hope. He believes not only that human beings survive death, but that they keep their memory, are able in some cases to communicate with the friends they leave behind them. Survivalist Lodge wanted not to die, wanted some scientific indication that his wish would come true. But he started with faith. Now "I know for a fact that, as individuals we survive the death of the body...