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...90th birthday. Son of a Grand Rapids banker, delicately dapper President Brewer took degrees a Dartmouth and Oxford, was private secretary to the late Editor John St. Lot-Strachey of the London Spectator for four years, helped found the short-lived Manhattan publishing firm of Brewer, Warren & Putnam...
PROMETHEANS-Burton Rascoe-Putnam ($2.75). Burton Rascoe is a journalist in search of literature. An epitome of restless 20th Century curiosity and enthusiasm, he has been a familiar U. S. literary figure for over ten years, has written masses of literary chatter but only three books. Prometheans is his fourth. Ever since he left Chicago (in 1920) he has been tinkering away at a novel which Author Branch Cabell calls "the most famous American novel never yet published." But Rascoe has been too busy nosing around among other people's works to finish his own. Prometheans, like his Titans...
WILLIAM P. BARBER Putnam, Conn...
...airline had ever dreamed of doing, Vidal & Collins astounded the industry by showing a profit without a mail subsidy. All went well until last year when they rowed with the Ludingtons, who bought them out. The line was absorbed by a competitor. Paul Collins and Amelia Earhart Putnam opened a new line in New England (TIME, Aug. 21). Gene Vidal met Elliott Roosevelt at the swank River Club in Manhattan, talked aviation with him. One day last January he, Elliott, Mrs. Roosevelt and Louis McHenry Howe flew to Warm Springs. Gene Vidal spent three days there, informally expounding his views...
Last week-end Gene Vidal flew to Manhattan to eat wild duck with his friends George Palmer Putnam and Paul Collins. As usual he carried no baggage except a toothbrush and shirt in his pocket. He never wears an undershirt. His hat, a floppy, wide-brimmed Borsalino, bears inside the legend: "The Latch-String Always Hangs Outside,' Amon G. Carter, Shady Oaks Farm, Fort Worth...