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...young Scotsman who was earning $25 a week as a financial reporter made an unusual investment. From his savings, he spent $10 a day to live at Manhattan's old Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. There he could rub elbows with the rich who gathered nightly in "Peacock Alley" to swap gossip. Before long, Bertie Charles Forbes was on speaking terms with many a tycoon. He became the rich man's Poor Richard and Boswell. As a Hearst columnist and later as publisher of his own Forbes-Magazine of Business, "B.C." found a hundred ways of repeating the obvious ("Dawn...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Mozart's Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in E Flat Major; Griffes' The White Peacock; Siegmeister's Symphony. Guest: British Pianist Dame Myra Hess. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...Peacock's short, genially satirical novels established him as one of England's minor novelists. There had been nothing like them before, but there was to be something like them later; Aldous Huxley, Norman Douglas, H. H. ("Saki") Munro and Evelyn Waugh would acknowledge their debt...
...pattern for most of Peacock's novels is a country house party where violently opinionated cranks, in an atmosphere of high spirits, alternate between chasing pretty girls and discussing everything, contradicting each other, and settling nothing-except that they make perfect butts for Peacock's gay, sometimes lethal, satire. Crotchet Castle and Nightmare Abbey, a goodnatured, witty caricature of Shelley as Scythrop dowry, the baffled lover, are probably the best of Peacock and least likely to bog the reader in temporary verbal swamps...
Critic Ben Ray Redman's informative introduction to The Pleasures of Peacock lacks the sparkle of his subject's prose. So do the "narrative bridges" with which he tries to repair his damage in cutting entire sections from five of the novels...