Word: menckens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baltimore, Iconoclast H. L. Mencken, 73, startled an interviewer with some relatively kindly comments on things in general. As he puffed on a long cigar and sipped some Canadian ale, Mencken conceded that Dwight Eisenhower is not a bad President. A "better-than-average President," said Mencken, and doing well "for a general." All this was a sign to his friends that Mencken, who has denounced every U.S. President since Teddy Roosevelt, is mellowing. Only once did Mencken unleash a hearty blast. General Douglas MacArthur, he said, is "a dreadful fraud, who seems to be fading satisfactorily...
...depths of his imagination were duds, the other half jolted theatergoers from Tokyo to Copenhagen. When O'Neill first upped periscope on the U.S. scene, he joined that literary wolfpack which, as one critic put it, was staging "an ill-will tour of the American mind." H. L. Mencken was lustily swatting the "boo-boisie." Sinclair Lewis was baiting Babbitt. O'Neill tried to go deeper than both, and he both succeeded and failed. Few of his characters are as simple as Babbitt; but none, in all likelihood, will be remembered as long...
...Another and Twenty Questions. Do you know, for instance, who inspired the quip, 'There but for the grace of God goes God?' Who started network on-the-field play-by-play broadcasting? Who was Herbert Hoover's running mate in 1932-described by H. L. Mencken as 'half Indian and half windmill...
This Is Charles Laughton (Sat. 6:15 p.m., CBS). Readings from The Arabian Nights and H. L. Mencken...
National issues were reflected in College action. Kirtley F. Mather, professor of Geology, argued that evolutionary theory should be taught in the schools. And H. L. Mencken, outspoken editor of the American Mercury, continuing his attack on American "Babbitry" blasted the Watch and Ward Society for its censorship...