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...leave for the Southwest Pacific to report World War II, replacing the News's George Weller, Pulitzer Prizewinner, who is ill. New News managing editor: Lloyd Downs Lewis, 52, a jack-of-many-newspaper-trades (book reviewer, historian, drama critic, author, sports editor) whom the late Raconteur Alexander Woollcott once called "the best newspaperman in the United States...
Contrary to legend, some Manhattan drama critics received it with considerable cordiality. The late Alexander Woollcott found merit in it. The late, great Percy Hammond intoned: "Later in the day I shall probably meet an acquaintance and he will ask me, as is the practice of a reviewer's acquaintances, what, if anything, I think of Abie's Irish Rose. Whereupon I shall oppress him with a sullen silence and pass upon my gloomy ways...
After Fadiman came F. P. A. (The late Alexander Woollcott scorned the proposition only to admit later on: "I thought it was a lousy idea. I was wrong.") Adams was adamant until Golenpaul asked...
...Woollcott's Last...
Sirs: TIME, Feb. 1, Radio section, p. 36: you quote Alexander Woollcott's last words. We have, in our file here at WCCO, electrical transcriptions of that People's Platform broadcast. Mr. Woolcott's last words, as taken from that transcription were: "Well, I mean that I think that the surrounding peoples, these physicians, ourselves, must heal themselves. I can see no suggestion that we are politically competent enough to do the job. I think time may do it." . . . R. L. ANDERSON WCCO Minneapolis