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...seen: whether the G.I. staff would produce such latterday giants as the Stars & Stripes' Class of '18: F.P.A., Steve Early, Grantland Rice, the New Yorker's Harold Ross, the late Alexander Woollcott...
...wife team who covered the Orient for the Christian Science Monitor, to chitchat the news on a show called Mr. & Mrs. Reporter (1 p.m., E.W.T.). ABC signed up the aging wonder boy Orson Welles. who wants to talk about Shirer's kind of subjects, and sound like Alexander Woollcott...
...Month Club has insured the success of many books. High-pressure promotion campaigns have launched others, including last year's lusty sensation, Forever Amber. An obscure novel called The Honorable Peter Stirling started selling like wildfire in 1897 when rumor identified the chief character as President Cleveland. Alexander Woollcott boosted a short story about a retiring British schoolteacher called Goodbye, Mr. Chips out of the cloistered covers of the Atlantic Monthly and into the hurly-burly of best-sellerdom by announcing over the radio that it had sent him "quietly mad." But Americans, by & large, have read what they...
...friends were often disgusted by Woollcott's grossness, sickened by his gush, ashamed when, for example, he hurled himself on his knees before Novelist Somerset Maugham in a crowded elevator, crying "Maitre!" But many of them loved and respected the man inside the Fabbulous Monster. They knew that Woollcott was boundlessly kind and generous without ever admitting it, that out of his swollen income he gave away huge sums-to friends, charities, young men trying to get a start in life. But sometimes the very combination of Christian and Monster seemed intolerable. "Your brother has a heart of gold...
Since the day Woollcott scrawled I AM SICK at a radio forum, and was carried out to die of a cerebral hemorrhage, his friends and enemies have tried to explain what manner of man he was. Some may agree with Critic Edmund Wilson's verdict: "In the days of totalitarian states and commercial standardization, he did not hesitate to assert himself as a single, unique human being." Others may ponder Woollcott's raging scream, made when a tactless lecture-chairman referred to his youthful success in female roles: "Look at me, boys and girls; half god, half woman...