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...portentous figures of the last 20 years. Some of those present: Sherwood Anderson, James Branch Cabell, Willa Gather, John Dos Passos, Theodore Dreiser, T. S. Eliot, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Ring Lardner, Sinclair Lewis, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Evelyn Scott, Edith Wharton, Glenway Wescott, Thornton Wilder. Readers may raise puzzled eyebrows at lesser-known names: Carl Becker, Albert Halper, Eleanor Rowland Wembridge. Nowhere to be found are such names as Upton Sinclair, Conrad Allen, Hervey Allen, Louis Bromfield, Walter Lippmann, T. S. Stribling. Looking back on his collection Anthologist Van Doren proudly says: "American literature...
...Moscow work under the perpetual threat of losing their visas, and therefore their jobs. . . . The result is that news from Russia is a joke." The news Author Muggeridge retails (especially of the foreign hangers-on, cranks, visitors, converts) is also a joke, boisterously but bitterly told. Some of his wilder scenes remind the reader of Evelyn Waugh...
Abrams Gets Wilder Prize...
Abrams graduated from Long Branch High School, and in his Freshman year received the Wilder Prize for excellence in elementary German, and a Price Greenleaf Aid scholarship. Last March he was awarded the Charles and Julia Henry Fellowship, and will study next year at Cambridge University. He was elected to Phi Beta Kappa in the Junior Eight, and was a member of the track and wrestling squads...
...Stavisky entered into relations with a rival adventurer known as Jean Galmot, from French Guiana. Galmot, a Wartime rumrunner, turned a handsome profit before developing political ambitions. With 800,000 francs, lent by Sacha Stavisky, Jean Galmot became a Deputy for French Guiana. The two cronies developed an even wilder scheme: to arm the convicts in the Guiana penal settlements and set up an independent state which they imagined the U. S. would support. At this point, still according to Deputy Henriot, Jean Galmot and "Handsome Alex" Stavisky fell madly in love with the beautiful Arlette Simon who married Stavisky...