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...embellished the fantastic facts of his life with even more fantastic fictions. His accounts of prodigious sexual exploits seem to have been less Frank than Harris. Now, 70 years after Harris rocketed to fame in London, British Author Vincent Brome has recovered a nose cone of truth from the oblivion into which Harris' reputation has fallen. It is a brisk and entertaining book in which Biographer Brome wisely leaves judgment to the men who knew him best-Max Beerbohm, Oscar Wilde, Bernard Shaw...
...taken only in small doses. When the peacetime national tax passes 10%, people begin to take evasive action (in Parkinson's view, the Book of Exodus is the story of an epic tax dodge). At about 25%, inflation debases the currency. Over 35%, taxes are alms for oblivion; the nation is carting itself to history's junkpile...
After only 28 performances on Broadway, Only in America, a comedy based on the life of Harry Golden, bestselling author (Only in America, For 2? Plain) and editor (the bimonthly Carolina Israelite), closed and faded into oblivion. Taking sad note of the closing in the current Israelite, Golden speaks on the power of the Broadway critics, whose predominantly unfavorable reviews helped kill the show...
...Earl" Long, three-time Louisiana Governor and heir to the political dynasty founded by Brother Huey, last week slid toward oblivion as the reigning force in Louisiana politics. Barred by law from succeeding himself and harried by doctors as he was chased in and out of mental hospitals (TIME, June 15 et seq.), Ole Earl, 64, tried to get himself nominated as next Lieutenant Governor in the free-for-all primary, put a hand-picked successor in as Governor. He cagily passed a bill to change the Democratic primary date from traditional Tuesday to work-free Saturday, thus tried...
...once Republican Indiana (71 Democratic cities to 36 Republican) and rejoiced over a landslide election of a Democratic Governor in Kentucky. Republicans pointed with pride to significant gains in Ohio's municipal elections and New Jersey's state assembly. One erstwhile Republican oddity emerged from oblivion to become the mayor of Salt Lake City, and another returned to it in trying to become mayor of Philadelphia (see below...