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Whether or not he was selling anything Gaudier worked like a demon, sometimes made 150 drawings in an evening. Gradually he met some useful friends: Frank Harris, Paul Morand, Jacob Epstein, John Middleton Murry. But he quarreled bitterly with Murry because Katherine Mansfield did not like Sophie. Nobody liked Sophie. Gaudier himself quarreled with her constantly. Frequently he tried to get her to become his mistress but she always refused, though she was not pleased when he went to other women...
...World Champions" by Paul Morand has been one of the most discussed books of the year in France. It is to be published here this month. The scene is again laid in America...
...Morand knows but disagrees with the opinion of many U. S. citizens that Manhattan is untypical of the U. S. Though he waxes elegiac on Manhattan's skyscrapers, he thinks "nobody now lives in New York for pleasure. One stays there just long enough to make one's fortune. Everyone works as hard as possible, for as few years as possible. . . . You live there, you whistle, you answer 'O.K.' to everything, and you only die at the last moment, very quickly. You aren't born there (a pregnant woman is never seen in the streets...
...Morand makes surprisingly few misstatements. Some of them: that one may bathe at Coney Island naked; that champagne averages $40 a bottle; that a balcony seat for a hockey game in Madison Square Garden costs...
...Author. Paul Morand, 42, poet, globetrotter, onetime member of the French diplomatic corps, is tall, dark, silent in company, but says he is happy, content, unruffled and undisturbed. Other (translated) books: Green Shoots, The Living Buddha, Open All Night, Closed All Night...