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...late Alexander Woollcott was asked at a party to name his ambition in life. He wrote: "I would rather be a Fabbulous Monster." Fifty years later, the letters from Woollcott's acquaintances which Samuel Hopkins Adams received as he prepared to write this biography indicated that this boyhood ideal had been realized in full. The letters ranged in tone from rage to pleading...
...want no part of Woollcott, dead or alive"; "Be kind to him. He was so kind himself, to so many"; "Selah to you in your efforts to make a man out of a mouse"; "He must have been misunderstood. . . . He must...
Biographer Adams, who is an old chum of Woollcott's and a fellow alumnus of Hamilton College as well as a practiced journalist and storyteller (Revelry; The Gorgeous Hussy; It Happened One Night), deals both gently and sharply with a personality who, outside politics and crooning, may quite possibly have stirred up more love and loathing than any U.S. contemporary...
Life with Father. "Don't you let them get you down," urged a col lege friend, after "Putrid" Woollcott (also known as "Slimer") had been tossed into the campus fountain for the ump teenth time. "You're going to be a greater [Samuel] Johnson." Young Woollcott agreed - though there is no evidence that he ever had the slightest conception of what macte Samuel...
There was no money in the bank when Alexander Humphreys Woollcott was born (January 1887). Roving, British-born Father Woollcott was an eccentric parent ; he played cards suspiciously well, became a natty secretary to the Kansas City Light & Coke Co., once went to bed for two years (he was tired), and spent his last years in an institution. His mother's fam ily were among the remnants of a once-flourishing, 19th-Century Utopian colony who lived in a rambling, 85-room house near Red Bank, N.J. Father Woollcott visited his wife, said "his disgruntled in-laws, "chiefly...