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...other novelist involved in the show was the 42-year-old, Wisconsin-born, Left Banker-that-was, Glenway Wescott (The Grandmothers, The Pilgrim Hawk). For the catalogue of the Remarque collection he wrote an eminently quotable introduction...
...crest, the lives of the young Americans who had transplanted themselves to Paris had three fixed points-the Dome, the Select, the Rotonde. To these world-famed cafés, at some time or other, came all American exiles: Ernest Hemingway, Elliot Paul, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Glenway Wescott, John Dos Passos, Robert Coates...
...Lawrenceville School and the University of Chicago long after he became famous. Most traditional and cloistered of novelists, he suddenly turned a somersault, became the most adventurous of playwrights. He much prefers plays to novels because of their "absence of editorial comment." He admires Authors Ernest Hemingway, Glenway Wescott, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, the late great Marcel Proust, James Joyce, can recite word for word whole pages of Joyce's Finnegans Wake...
...RALPH W. WESCOTT...
Aside from a somewhat lavender pallor of cheek which no doctor could remove, Wescott's fresh start is clean and real. It also shows that for some young writers their expatriate decade was not wasted...