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This week Publisher Ryan and Editor Huie brought out the first issue of the New American Mercury. Its avowed purpose: "To re-create the magazine in the Mencken tradition" and joust with bureaucrats, commissars and pressure groups as Mencken had tangled with boobs, censors and yahoos. But the first issue showed that Huie was no Mencken...
...Baltimore's Johns Hopkins Hospital, after a near-fatal bout with a heart attack, H. L. Mencken was off the critical list and on the mend again, upsetting his doctors' predictions and confusing the nurses with orders for solid food and attention. His first demand...
...carried a crack by Mr. H. L. Mencken . . . bemoaning the fact that Luchow's Restaurant had been sold [said Mencken: "It's the end of civilization"-TIME...
...corresponding secretary of Stamm-Tisch Hinterhaus, a luncheon club meeting regularly at Luchow's, I have been authorized to refute Mr. Mencken's dire prediction that civilization is coming to an end with the aforementioned sale. To the contrary ... the only change noticed recently is that the portion of Coconut Cream Pie (regularly served on Fridays since time immemorial) is a quarter of an inch larger...
...first sentence, Mr. Kemler sees Mencken as a "Rabelais, Swift, or Shaw--who has somehow abused his gifts." Mr. Kemler fails to make his case for this comparison. His book is a humdrum piece of writing, devoid of wit and the dramatic flair necessary for a biography...