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...MENCKEN: A PORTRAIT FROM MEMORY (240 pp.)-Charles Angoff-Thomas Yoseloff...
During Prohibition, the red-letter days at the American Mercury were the ones on which the bootlegger's man in the Brooks Brothers suit delivered the booze. Editor Mencken "stopped whatever work he was doing, carefully unwrapped each bottle, put it to his cheek, and smacked his lips . . . Mencken's eyes bulged and glistened, his cheeks flushed, and he would gabble and gabble, spitting tobacco juice all the while into the large brass spittoon at the side of his desk...
...Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). H. L. Mencken-The Story of a Journalist...
...Mencken had a lifetime habit of jotting down iconoclastic notes to himself for use in future essays. Stuffed away and forgotten, they were found shortly before his death early this year and assembled as his final book. Minority Report: H.L. Mencken's Notebook (293 pp.; Knopf; $3.95) is a last lusty Bronx cheer at the muscular pessimist of Baltimore. Some samples...
...Ways will replace him as London Bureau Chief and senior European correspondent for TIME and LIFE. Max Ways, 50, got his start as a handicapper and journalist in Baltimore, a good race-track and newspaper town. The son of the late city editor Max Ways, who gave H. L. Mencken his first job on the old Herald, young Max cubbed on the rival Sun. By the time World War II started, he was writing editorials for the Philadelphia Record. He served through much of the war with the U.S. Foreign Economic Administration, appraising enemy economies for the chiefs of staff...