Word: soule
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...umbrella-toting hero of this Great Adventure is the soul of Logan Pearsall Smith viewed under the aspect of eternity. Author Smith, ex-Quaker, ex-American, is one of the few contemporary writers of English prose who can afford to be so viewed. For if stylistic perfection, embalming a wry wit and a flawless sense of human folly, has any preservative powers, the four slender volumes* gathered into this brief (197-page) book have a better chance than most contemporary writing to survive the impartial ages...
...stage it looked and sounded like a rich, ripe American swingfest. The unrehearsed band, including a West Indies Negro drummer and three American G.I.s, played all around such jazz standbys as Body and Soul and Sweet Georgia Brown, and really got hot on Benny Goodman's old Don't Be That Way. Pace setter was the hot sax of Private Arthur Pepper, formerly with Gus A.rnheim's band-where Bing Crosby first got his start as a soloist...
...Body & Soul...
...creator of The Timid Soul had done nothing but invent Milquetoast-the quavering quintessence of the Little Man at his least manly-he would have earned his modest place in the nation's pantheon. Harold Tucker Webster has done a great deal besides, in the 15,000-odd panels he has drawn in the past 43 years. Last week Webster's fourth collection of cartoons (Webster Unabridged; McBride; $2) appeared...
...Webster has learned to slice and serve his generous chunks of U.S. life methodically. Caspar (The Timid Soul) appears Sundays and Mondays. The pitilessly fanatic and bad-mannered bridge players run Fridays. Boyhood's lovingly elaborated triumphs (The Thrill That Comes Once in a Lifetime) and defeats (Life's Darkest Moment} appear on Saturdays and Tuesdays. Thursdays bring How to Torture Your Husband (or Wife). On Wednesdays, in The Unseen Audience, he pokes a sharp-pointed stick at radio-which of all mixed blessings most needs satirizing, and gets it least. Webster, in fact, is possibly radio...