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Novelist Alec Waugh, balding elder brother of Novelist Evelyn, explained to a Manhattan interviewer how the Waughs kept from tripping over each other. "We made a compact," recalled Alec, "that we wouldn't go to the same countries. . . . He took the Catholic countries-he's Catholic, you know. I took the cricket countries. I like cricket and football." Henry L Mencken, keg-shaped sage of Baltimore, received the press on the occasion of a new supplement to The American Language. He reported that the Baltimore Sun had invited him to report both political conventions this year...
...Civilization. In another of his studies, Sykes writes of his friend and companion in Persia, Robert Byron, a gifted Orientalist. At Oxford in the mid-20s he was a leader in the "Oxford Aesthetes," a set accurately parodied in Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. But his serious ambition was to understand the entire world into which he had been born. A fair and fearless little man, in the course of a dozen years he lived in every quarter of the world. His loyalty, at first given to his own time, was finally given to his civilization. He died...
Soon after him arrives Slater, a loutish newspaperman modeled after characters in Evelyn Waugh's early novels. Slater wants a raid even if it means the death of Bullivant and the 23rd Corps-just so long as he gets his scoop. He bullies Bullivant into bullying the partisans. to agree to fight. His scoop is ruined when, in a farcical scene, 19 other newspapermen descend on the camp to cover the raid. Comic fiasco turns to tragedy: the partisans attack, only to suffer casualties from the Allies, who have in the meantime taken over the area. Men have died...
...collection of short stories which won the ?500 Somerset Maugham Award in England. Under the terms laid down by Donor Maugham, the British government permits the winner to spend his prize money in foreign travel - and that privilege, in currency-tight England, is a prize in itself. Novelist Evelyn Waugh acidly predicted that "elderly" writers would compete even if it meant "forging of birth certificates, dyeing of whiskers and lifting of faces. To what parodies of experimental styles will we not push our experienced pens...
...Barker (29), the first Maugham Award winner, is no experimental stylist. And even "elderly" Evelyn Waugh (44) might have had a hard time getting the prize away from a book of short stories as original and good as her Innocents...