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CAREER-Phil Stong-Harcourt, Brace...
...petered-out career, came to the conclusion that successful authors were not really born that way; at some point in their career they simply sold out. If Critic Brooks were still interested in literary careers that are still in process of petering out, he might well pick Phil Stong's as a glittering example. Author Stong's first published novel, State Fair (TIME, May 9, 1932), roused the tireless hopes of many a novel-addict, seemed to herald the coming of a genuine U. S. writer. But thereafter, in shoddy book after book, Author Stong showed where...
...spite of all temptations to take his tongue out of his cheek and go up higher, Author Stong remains at the top of his heap, lustily cock-a-doodling. At 36 he is president of the Authors Club. His latest novel. Career, pleased his friends, fooled nobody. A specious, shrewdly contrived melodrama of Iowa small-town life, Career rang all the approved changes on the old tune of the unconsidered village wise man, the turkey-gobbler-villain banker, the solid youth who will go far, and the girl with bad blood who has come far enough. It was in orchestrating...
...published by "St. Nicholas League." Equally distinguished were the invited guests who sent regrets. Among them: Carolyn Wells ("who probably wrote more for St. Nicholas than anyone you know"); Laurence Stallings (who "was never a contributor to St. Nicholas and spent most of my time reading trashy literature"); Phil Stong (who in boyhood was a "veteran Youth's Companioner...
...wife. The advertising man, who hated his wife sincerely and thought he loved Flora more than his own tragic ego, was shown his mistake. The hard-bitten drunk and the cool-headed lady in search of a husband both came through with flying colors, got what they wanted. Author Stong, knowing what the audience at a melodrama expects, pairs his couples off nicely, with small loss of life: one loathsome little dog, one banker...