Word: menckens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
Hickest of the Hick. During the day, as Author Charles Angoff makes clear in a book that is really a nonstop conversation piece, Mencken's vice was word-intoxication. Profane, scatological and childishly bigoted, Mencken uttered a good many words that probably belonged in the spit toon, but they lodged vividly in the memory of Russian-born, Harvard-educated Charles Angoff. Critic, Novelist and Edi tor Angoff has a legitimate claim to know Mencken well-from 1925 to 1933 he was Mencken's sole editorial associate on the Mercury. But this will only partly help the reader...
...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...