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AFRICAN MAJESTY-F. Clement C. Egerton-Scribner...
John Herrmann was a traveling salesman himself at 15, studied law, took up journalism before he married Josephine Herbst (Nothing Is Sacred, Money for Love), published a book, What Happens, in Paris in 1926. In 1932 he shared with Thomas Wolfe a $5,000 prize in a Scribner's short-novel contest. Herrmann's work, Big Little Trip, was about a jewelry salesman who oversold his customers. The Salesman suggests that its author is oversold on salesmen...
...himself into a nervous breakdown that turned his luck again. He spent two years in bed, unable to read, one more year reading and analyzing detective stories, the heaviest fare his doctor would allow him. When he was able to get around, he took to Editor Maxwell Perkins of Scribner's the outline of three Philo Vance detective stories. As S. S. Van Dine, Wright wrote serialized best-sellers for a decade, so obscured his earlier reputation that when his identity was revealed (by Bruce Gould, now co-editor of The Ladies' Home Journal) few people except literati...
...Haven Baptist preacher's son to the latest Yale football team-a personal history whose like will probably not be lived again in the U. S. A giant, discursive volume, it reprints copiously from Billy Phelps's books and "As I Like It" column in Scribner's, contains random commentaries on everything from Browning to blowing smoke rings. Its main bulk is given over to his many letters from famed writers, to his reminiscences of 41 years as English professor at Yale. (He estimates that he has taught almost 17,000 students, the majority of whom "have...
...spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list of "best books," writes few book reviews. But his influence is by no means extinct. Still one of the most popular of lecturers, he estimates "I'll probably average a talk a day over the next year...