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Christopher Morley wasn't there when his fellow Book-of-the-Month Club judges chose Josephine Pinckney's Great Mischief for March. That leaves the blame to be split four ways among B.O.M. Judges Henry Seidel Canby, Dorothy Canfield, Clifton Fadiman and John P. Marquand. They have bought a salable name (Miss Pinckney's earlier Three O'Clock Dinner was a bestselling Literary Guild choice, is now being filmed) but not a satisfactory novel. Apparently unabashed, they compound their great mischief by bracketing Miss Pinckney with Novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne. This tiresome little witch story, which flirts...
Weaker Sex. In Nottingham, England, Thomas Albert Morley came home one night, manfully announced: "I'm boss from now on." Thereupon his wife 1) pushed him over a chair, 2) kicked him, 3) cut his arm with a knife, 4) cut him under the eye with a well-aimed teapot, 5) threatened to kill...
...knew exactly to what degree such sales were due to faith, hope and advertising, and to what degree to U.S. book clubs. The clubs' tremendous sales machines, oiled with the prestigious praise of people like Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Christopher Morley, were built to sell literary goods whether they were silk purses or sows' ears. In the marts of trade, if not of letters, 20 or 30 book clubs were in bustling operation, and the top two-Book-of-the-Month and its tawdrier sister, Literary Guild-together claimed nearly 2,250,000 "members," i.e., consistent buyers...
...only potential enemy in sight, a practice not considered good manners at the start of the year. Only a few of 1946's substantial histories were wholly above the battle, among them Joseph Dorfman's two-volume The Economic Mind in American Civilization (1606-1865); Sylvanus G. Morley's The Ancient Maya. In a class by itself was Yale Professor F. S. C. Northrop's The Meeting of East and West, a study of international cultures...
What other race did so much, so long, with so little, asks Archaeologist Morley proudly? Not the Incas or Aztecs, he says -and probably not the Egyptians, Persians, .Greeks, Romans, Chinese...