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Over the signature of Alexander Woollcott was dispatched a heavily personalized form letter urging people to give Seagram's Pedigree Whiskey for Christmas...
...Chaucer's Canterbury Pilgrims been recruited in this century, they would certainly have taken Woolicott along, and some of Chaucer's nimblest tales would have begun this way: "Woollcott speaking...
...WOOLLCOTT READER-edited by Alexander Woollcott-Viking ($3). A 1,101-page anthology of Alexander Woollcott's favorite reading, including Richard Harding Davis' The Bar Sinister, Barrie's Margaret Ogilvy, selections from the work of Clarence Day, Lytton Strachey, Evelyn Waugh, Thornton Wilder...
...that presents so many aspects and such varied problems. Harry Franck is--as always--immediately disarming as he informs you in the preface "But," you cry, "only thirty days!" Yes, but that seems as long as the erudite Dr. Durrant or the intrepid Carveth Wells or the portly Alexander Woollcott spent there--yet they each got a book out of it." Perhaps, Mr. Franck himself best sums up the value of this book's contribution to knowledge about the Soviet when he adds "You couldn't get the whole truth about the USSR in a single book if you went...
...perhaps Messrs. Woollcott and Williams too) seemed to indicate. It is the theme of The Fatal Curiosity, by George Lillo, first acted in London in 1736. The plot is the same as in the later versions. The son returns, meaning to surprise his parents; they murder him, discovering just too late who he is; the father kills his wife, then himself. The time of the play is in the reign of James I, and the plot has been traced to a pamphlet printed in 1618. The story may probably be much older. The original title under which the play...