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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fussily graceful preface, Albert Jay Nock implied not only that Mr. "A. B." is dead but that he is embalmed in more than a few grains of salt. A reviewer for Commonweal suggested that Nock was merely hiding behind himself. In the Herald Tribune, Banker-Littérateur Lewis Galantiere unveiled the Meditator as his "master," Dr. Erasmus Beebe, "the recluse of Remsen Street." (Mr. Galantiere admitted later that he was just having a little fun, hornswoggling credulous readers.) At month's end the author, dead or alive, remained anonymous; his slow-spoken aphorisms continued to make friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Doctor's Aphorisms | 4/15/1940 | See Source »

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