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Four weeks ago Manuel Alonso, dashing Spanish tennis player, whipped William T. Tilden, II, national champion, for the Illinois state title. Three weeks ago Tilden got revenge in the national clay court finals at Indianapolis. He beat swart Alonso three sets out of four...
Reading West of the Water Tower has convinced me that warm weather and realism do not go together. The effort is like that of digesting pork chops after luncheon on the Fourth of July. What a relief, therefore, to pick up a book like Freeman Tilden's Mr. Podd. Call it what you like ? burlesque, satire, sociological tract?it still remains funny, genuinely funny, and I have an idea that many of us will go a long way to hear of and then to find a really funny book. Mr. Podd is apparently on the way to the best...
...Freeman Tilden...
...past Mr. Tilden has been known chiefly as a writer of business stories, which you will remember in The Saturday Evening Post and elsewhere. His one other novel, Khaki, appearing at the close of the War, was badly timed and made little impression. Mr. Podd is the story of a millionaire who starts an ideal Government on an island all his own. Naturally, one's first question to Mr. Tilden is: "Mr. Podd is Henry Ford?" To which he replies: "Mr. Podd is not a caricature of Ford, though the Peace Ship escapade had a lot to do with...
...Sometimes I think," Mr. Tilden added, "that you've all forgotten how to laugh in New York!" Perhaps we only snicker and snigger. Who knows? At any rate, whatever may be our pet noise which denotes amusement, we shall probably bring it forth when we encounter Mr. Tilden's Mr. Podd, unless, perhaps, we are members of "the lunatic fringe...