Word: menckens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine field, the American Mercury has done a flip-flop from the iconoclastic days of H. L. Mencken, and in September 1957, a strongly worded article entitled "Harvard Betrays its Heritage" appeared under the byline of Harold Lord Varney, managing editor. Criticizing the Harvard Corporation for its "mawkish tolerance of communism," Varney spoke of "intellectual mushiness," and concluded that the College had "fallen into an era of little men and little men and little safety haunted minds at the Harvard summit...
...Ruth Suckow's new novel may seem no more contemporary than an old-fashioned Sunday sermon, no closer to modern literature than Horatio Alger. It may be hard to believe that she was once praised as a realist, and that so joyous a literary scalper as Henry Louis Mencken cheered her on and gave her houseroom in his American Mercury. The fact is, Author Suckow has not changed at all, but life has. The Iowa that was her childhood home is still the source of her fictional truth. In The John Wood Case, her first book in seven years...
...hope of easing life for his sick wife, want to be charitable. But for young Philip, life seems smashed, and his agony is the greater because he had worshiped his father. In working out an ending to this story. Author Suckow is still the realist who stirred Mencken's enthusiasm...
...French lawyer who settled in Indiana, George Jean Nathan chose Cornell as the U.S. college "most like a European university," got his first job on the old New York Herald. In 1908, over double drinks in a Manhattan bar, he struck up a partnership with Henry Louis Mencken* that was to last through two decades and make Nathan's byline famed on Main Street as well as on Broadway. Together they became the scorpion-tossing twins of Jazz Age journalism. On Nathan's Smart Set (1914-23), Mencken's old American Mercury (1924-33), and the short...
...Mencken and Nathan...