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These descriptions became part of the carefully nurtured legend of Alexander Woollcott. The legend was no more varied than the man. Despite his activities as dramacritic, radio raconteur, cinemactor, women's club lecturer, magazine contributor, author (While Rome Burns, etc.), playwright, Broadway actor, he achieved his greatest success in the tireless, diverse role of Alexander Woollcott-a complex of childish petulance, fierce, blind loyalties, sentimental sophistication, and a cannibalistic curiosity about people and things...
Captain F. P. Adams columned on the paper for ten weeks then was transferred to other duties. Lieut. Grantland Rice went to work the issue that the sport page was abolished. "Rank-&-Filers" Mark Watson and Stephen Early were Major Watson and Captain Early. Alexander Woollcott was a sergeant, and the official roster doesn't list a single Marx -let alone Harpo. So, it seems, the only authentic private of your picked group is Harold Ross...
Guests of Alexander Woollcott, arriving at his island in Bomoseen Lake, Vt., have always had to make the trip from the dock to his house on foot, because the island is too small to accommodate a car. In the Chicago Daily News last week appeared a want ad: "WANTED-Jinrikisha, preferably one originally used at Chicago Century of Progress. Address Alexander Woollcott, Bomoseen...
Alexander Woollcott, "Harpo" Marx, Grantland Rice, F. P. A., Mark Watson (Sunday editor of the Baltimore Sun), Harold Ross (New Yorker editor), Stephen T. Early (Presidential press secretary) would make quite a staff for a weekly paper. Once they did. They and other rank-&-filers (officers were outlawed) made journalistic history in World War I by publishing the A.E.F.'s Stars & Stripes, which ran its circulation to over 500,000, won praise in Pershing's memoirs as the biggest morale builder of the A.E.F...
...Woollcott (Red Fri. Jan. 23, 8:30 p.m.E.S.T.) on Information Please...