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...legend: "These honored dead were Forteans: OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES - LINCOLN STEFFENS." The magazine also announced that astronomers played down a recent eclipse of Venus by the moon for fear that laymen would discover that the universe is not running according to man-made schedule; that Alexander ("Town Crier") Woollcott is an ardent Fortean who gives away dozens of Fort's books to friends; that Booth Tarkington would discuss Fortism in the next issue. No better and no worse than the rest of the magazine were the words of Charles Fort himself, piously printed from his jumbled notes just...
...bull spirit of U. S. newspapers, a red, red rag is radio's blatantly exaggerated "coverage claims." Last month mild-mannered Alexander Woollcott became an unwitting toreador in the radio v. newspaper ring. Seizing upon his radio praise of John Steinbeck's novel Of Mice & Men ("I look upon [it] as a masterpiece") the book's publishers plastered newspapers in Chicago, Boston and New York with the claim that Pundit Woollcott had spoken thus "in speaking to 69,540,000 people...
...giving the percentage of radio sets theoretically tuned in on 250 leading U. S. radio programs, based on actual checks of homes in 32 key areas. Accepted figure for U. S. families owning radio sets Jan. 1, 1937 is 24,500,000. C.A.B.'s rating for Mr. Woollcott's program during the period of last month's advertisements was 5.1%. Calculating 3.5 listeners for every U. S. radio, Mr. Woollcott's listeners were...
...Brooks) White. Grave, smallish Writer White, whose devotees consider him the nation's ablest humorist, is generally content to muse on minor human foibles. In semi-serious vein he perennially campaigns against arsenic apple spray. He is a friend-but not, as reported by bumbling Alexander Woollcott, the founder-of the Enemies of Modern Aviation, Inc. Last week, however, connoisseurs recognized an unusually earnest thrust from the White rapier in a New Yorker paragraph which gave the President and his Court plan a pinking far more effective than the bludgeonings of his customarily solemn critics. Full text...
...night, worries his old landlady, a woman boarder and all of Scotland Yard, while amassing a fortune, without murder, for a "Sacred Cause." THE MOONSTONE AND THE WOMAN IN WHITE-Wilkie Collins-Modern Library ($1.10). Reprint, in readable type, of two detective classics; with an introduction by Alexander Woollcott. The first and probably the best, full-length detective novel, The Moonstone has had a U. S. reputation confined mostly to hearsay...