Word: wescott
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bloom's cadavers have not sold as well as his other work, but he is optimistic about the eventual market, after the first shock wears off. One customer has been Author Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens), who bought an amputated leg with a gangrenous foot, hung it on his dining-room wall...
...years, schoolboys have known him as co-editor of Moody & Lovett's A History of English Literature. The roll of his students who made the grade as professional writers reads like a partial Who's Who of U.S. authors. Some of them: John Gunther, Vincent Sheean, Glenway Wescott, Elizabeth Madox Roberts, Vardis Fisher, Harry Hansen, Helen Hull, Janet Planner...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage batted about by Authors Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and Charles Rolo (Wingate's Raiders) and by Critic John Mason Brown...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain examined by a strange trio of writers: Charles Jackson (The Lost Weekend); Glenway Wescott (Apartment in Athens) and PM's Max Lerner...
...chronological line from Fitzgerald's youth and glory to his maturity and misery. Every aspect of his life and work - the brilliant, the second-rate, the real, the illusory - is shown. Readers may differ on the question of Fitzgerald's survival value, but they will respect Author Wescott's statement that Fitzgerald's life and fate mirrored the life and fate of a whole period of American life. "He was our darling, our genius, our fool. ... He lived and he wrote at last like a scapegoat, and now has departed like...