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Other books: The Seven Lively Arts, The Stammering Century, The Wings of the Eagle, The Future of Drinking; under the pseudonym of "Foster Johns," two mystery novels: The Victory Murders, The Square Emerald...
Shaw's ambitions are two: to become a writer on his own merits (he has tried in vain to get his work accepted under a pseudonym); to make a parachute jump ("and I don't care what the result is either"). His enlistment expires on March 11, 1935. Then he may either re-enlist or settle in his Somerset cottage and write for a living?Ł4 a week, in his opinion; "far too much trouble to work for more...
Writing in the current Harpers magazine, Olaf Axelgaard (a convenient pseudonym) examines the "scholastic tourist trade" and finds it sadly wanting. He tells amusing stories of incompetent loafers who wander around the continent, and return to the welcoming arms of an alma mater hypnotized by the "music of the Sorbonne." There has been a and decadence; fifty years ago, the writer claims, the American group studying in Europe were a driving force in education. Now the "hrummagen scholarship" has caused the "goddess Alma Mater to resemble the bitch goddess of William James." According to this authority, the average student goes...
...they would surely not have chosen Groucho Marx. He lacks the manner, the appearance, the erudition proper to the post. Nonetheless, at the beginning of Horse Feathers (Paramount) it becomes clear that the trustees of Huxley College have been so haphazard as to select Groucho. thinly disguised under the pseudonym of Professor Wagstaff, for this honor. He is discovered on a rostrum, where the retiring president of Huxley is addressing the faculty and student body. Attired in a mortar board, with a tailcoat over his arm, Groucho is shaving his false mustache in a portable mirror while puffing a stogie...
...GOOD SHEPHERD?John Rathbone Oliver?Stokes ($2). A revised reprint of a novel first published in 1917 under the pseudonym John Roland. An inspirational novel of how a U. S. doctor, in the Austrian Tyrol, modifies his own as well as other people's spots. One of the best medical tales ever written...