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...historian, lecturer, professional Anglophile and the New York Times's eminent French trained seal. A onetime textile manufacturer, Andre Maurois went into the more elegant business of writing and became a parlor philosopher with the glibness of an Emil Ludwig and the precious outlook of an H. L. Mencken. Last week he followed into the Academy arch-Royalist Charles Maurras, also elected within the month (TIME, June...
Died. John Van Alstyn Weaver, 44, literary journeyman and husband of Actress Peggy Wood; of tuberculosis; in Colorado Springs. In 1921, having taken exception to an observation in H. L. Mencken's American Language that nothing serious could be written in slang, he published a book of poems (In American), at Mencken's suggestion, to disprove...
...hated by Herbert Hoover, Mencken, Hitler and Mussolini is good enough liberal for most...
Author-Critic Henry Louis Mencken quit his short-time job as editor of the Baltimore Evening Sun (TIME, Feb. 21), went to Manhattan, where he attended a cocktail party given by Lecturer Sally Rand (see p. 56), got ready to sail for a vacation in Nazi Germany...
...dead," raged at critics who did not agree. The back pages of the Saturday Review continued to be given over to literary double-crostic puzzles and the meandering pleasantries of Christopher Morley and old Q; but up front each week readers got the most violent U. S. criticism since Mencken (but not so sharply phrased as Mencken's), in reviews that seethed and sizzled...