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...magazine boasts short selections from the personal writings of distinguished men: Thornton Wilder, Mark Twain and William Dean Howells, Ford Madox Ford. These pieces are all interesting, but they have all been published before and were presumably included primarily to fill out the table of contents, and perhaps to help set the tone of the publication...
...When the Twain Meet...
...inveterate girl watcher. The girl is Virginia Jackson, a witchingly lovely item who appears on a neighboring Darien. Conn, porch each morning in a shimmering blue robe to serve breakfast to her father, a bar-car contemporary of Wink's. She is just 22. and whether the twain can mate is the fulcrum of this wry comedy of commuterland. In establishing squatter's rights on the Peter De Vries-John Cheever territory. Author Roswell G. Ham Jr. (Fish Flying Through Air) is a trifle unsure of himself, but he has some of the same deft flair for eyedropping...
...Plain Dealer, set himself up in mid-19th century as the cracker-box philosopher Artemus Ward, announced that the D.C. after Washington stood for "Desprit Cusses," and advised President Lincoln to fill his Cabinet with show-business types since they would know how to cater to the public. Mark Twain was often deserted by his light touch when he contemplated politics, though he contributed a pair of memorable definitions: a Senator is someone who "makes laws in Washington when not doing time"; and "public office is private graft...
...Empire comparable to Gibraltar and Malta, Singapore was in reality a defenseless, polyglot commercial town of Chinese. Japanese, Indians, Jews and British who were as divided on their feelings about the war as they were in their peacetime pursuits: "East was East, and West was West, and the twain did not meet except to exchange dollars or back horses." While guns boomed within earshot up the peninsula, life went on in Singapore much as before, with bars, brothels and theaters thriving. In typical shrewd Singapore fashion, people turned the war to their own advantage; fishermen rowed out before dawn...